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.
Acquisitions
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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.
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Detroit Institute of Arts Launches Initiative to Deepen Collection of African American Art
Last week, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired “Bird” (1990), a striking sculpture by David Hammons.
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Smithsonian Doubles Its Bill Traylor Holdings Ahead of 2018 Retrospective
Bill Traylor’s drawings and paintings were not recognized by the art world until decades after his death in 1949.
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A Gift to Cooper Hewitt Fills Gaps in the Collection
Thanks to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s 19th-century roots and the Hewitt sisters’ collection, the institution has strong holdings in that era’s decorative arts. This month, the New York museum announced that its 20th-century collections were strengthened with a considerable gift from George R. Kravis II.
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The Frick Scores a Trove of 450 Historical Medals
The Frick Collection is adding an impressive cache of metal portraits to its collections.
