Acquisitions

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Artists and Curators Weigh In on Baltimore Museum’s Move to Deaccession Works by White Men to Diversify Its Collection

The Baltimore Museum of Art will deepen its holdings of works by women and artists of color using funds from sales of seven redundant works.

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Chris Ofili Painting, Once Called "Degenerate" by Trump, Gifted to Museum of Modern Art by Trump Supporter

The painting, which sparked a political scandal at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, was donated to MoMA by hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen.

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Louvre Abu Dhabi Claims They Own Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" [UPDATE 2]

The Louvre Abu Dhabi is now claiming it owns the world's most expensive artwork.

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A Somber Sculpture of the First Black Actor to Play Othello

When Ira Aldridge took the London stage in 1825, he became the first black actor to portray Shakespeare's Othello.

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For the First Time, Metropolitan Museum Will Display Indigenous Art in Its American Wing

With a major promised gift of 91 works of Native American art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will now include indigenous art in its galleries on American art.

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85 Rare and Vibrant Coptic Textiles Find a Home at Queens College

The Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College acquired 85 Coptic textiles from the 3rd to 7th century Egypt, a rare gift that will be a teaching resource for its students.

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575,000 Images by Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Go to Library of Congress

The institution has acquired a massive archive of Adelman's work, including his 1960s photographs of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires Nearly 100 Works by Self-Taught Artists

The Margaret Z. Robson Collection is the institution's largest acquisition of its kind in two decades.

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Donation Returns Over 200 Indigenous Art Objects to British Columbia

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia has received an anonymous donation of First Nations art and artifacts worth $7 million, a major return of indigenous heritage to the area.

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Museum of Modern Art Adds the Original Emoji Set to Its Permanent Collection ?

The 176 pixellated pictograms created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 "are the humble masterpieces of the digital world," according to MoMA curator Paola Antonelli.

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102 Latin American Works Gifted to the Museum of Modern Art

In addition to the historic gift, the museum will establish a center for the study of modern art from Latin America.

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19th-Century Peepshows Offer 3D Glimpses of the Past

Long before cardboard VR viewers, there were paper peepshows: pocket-sized stage sets with illustrated backdrops and paper cut-out scenes, which expand like accordion books to create an illusion of depth when you peer through eyeholes.