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National Portrait Gallery London Commissions Malala Yousafzai Portrait, and Contemporary Austin Acquires an Ai Weiwei

Plus, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama works sell at auction, and a US couple is forced to return a looted Pissaro to its rightful heir.

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Hirshhorn Museum Acquires Ai Weiwei Installation, and Getty Acquires Betye Saar Archive

Plus, an Albert Giacometti sculpture sells at auction, and Sotheby's cancels their sale of the Count and Countess Viel Castel collection after an unnamed American buys the entire collection.

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Stanford Acquires Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpture, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Acquires Medieval Art

Plus, a Paul Rand photogram sells at auction, and Christie's and Sotheby's sell a number of Chinese and Southeast Asian works and artifacts.

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Nazi Looted Renoir Painting Is Returned, and Metropolitan Museum Acquires Juan Gris Painting

Plus, an 8th-century Sican gold funeral mask is returned to Peru, and a Jack B. Yeats painting sells at auction.

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Hirshhorn Museum Receives 50 Marcel Duchamp Works, and Birmingham Museum Repatriates 12th-Century Indian Sculpture

Plus, the New Orleans Museum receives over 1,300 photographs, and the Pallant House Gallery acquires six works by Young British Artists.

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Kimbell Art Museum Acquires a Pierre Bonnard Painting, and Disneyland Ride Car Sells for $483,000

Plus, a George Condo painting sells for $75,000, and Christopher Cardozo Fine Art donates Edward Curtis's republication of The North American Indian to 12 tribal colleges.

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The Blanton Museum Gifts 500 Works to Texas Museums, and German Museum Gets 150 Beuys Works

Plus, M+ in Hong Kong acquires all of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries's works, and the Millennium Sapphire is purchased for $50 million.

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The National Portrait Gallery London Acquires Painting of Dylan Thomas, and a 1913 Nickel Is Sold for $4.5 Million

Plus, a New Zealand museum acquires a fountain pen that inspired the disposable, hypodermic syringe.

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Hirshhorn Museum Acquires a Tino Sehgal Performance, and Frank Frazetta's Comic Art Sells at Auction

Plus, the University of Wollongong receives a May Barrie maquette, and Ruby City acquires a Gillian Wearing photograph.

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The Jewish Museum Receives Barnett Newman's Art Collection, and Rosa Parks's House Goes Up for Auction

Plus, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston receives a 17th century Chinese scroll, and the Krannert Museum in Illinois expands its collection after a five-year-fundraising initiative.

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Six de Koonings Found in a Storage Unit, and 355 Works Worth $480M Donated to Hong Kong Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art receives a $1.5 million gift for Chinese painting conservation, and the Worcester Art Museum acquires four new works.

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Al Qassemi Settles Lawsuit with Sotheby’s and Waterhouse’s “The Siren” Sells for Nearly $5 million

A Sir Quentin Blake retrospective auction celebrates the author’s prolific career as an illustrator and a 19th Century European and Orientalist Art auction fetches over $3 million at Christie’s in London.