Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The acquisition comes as the museum’s photography department prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary

It is one of only two marble works by the revered Mannerist sculptor in a US museum

The artist’s 37ft-tall “Split-Rocker” was donated to the museum by collectors Lynda and Stewart Resnick

The donation, from the Vancouver-based collector and businessman Bob Rennie, is the largest in the gallery's history

The gift, from longtime benefactors Lenore and Bernard Greenberg, includes works on paper by Ed Ruscha, Franz Kline, Susan Rothenberg, Philip Guston and others

“This is how art history gets written, from these primary-source materials,” says Stanford’s art and architecture librarian

Works acquired by Rotterdam’s new Fenix museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a small Greek island

The Texas museum was the underbidder on “The Cut Melon” last June at Christie's, but was ultimately able to acquire it directly from the consignor

The Mono-ha master’s works will be featured in 2026 solo exhibition at Dia Beacon

Works by Edgar Degas, Carl Gustav Carus and Floris van Dijck have entered the gallery's collection

The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others

Guercino’s “King David” and a rare relief by John Deare have been allocated to the London institutions in lieu of inheritance tax on the estate of the celebrated financier, philanthropist and heritage leader

Virginia Vezzi's "Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" is one of the 112 pieces acquired during the museum's annual Collectors Committee Weekend

The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo

Art was not a part of the philanthropist’s life growing up in a remote town in Russia, but moving to Europe some years ago opened her eyes, and she is now an avid collector and generous donor

Works acquired by the US’s National Gallery of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston and Oxford’s Christ Church

Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project supported by Chanel

Hammer Museum, Lacma and Moca jointly acquire two works

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The diamond-encrusted pieces of jewellery can now be seen in Eltham Palace, Courtauld’s former home

The donation, by Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz, will give visitors unprecedented access to the US's largest collection of French Old Masters

The acquisition, announced by former first lady Jill Biden, makes Herrera the first Latin American woman to have work in the White House collection

The works are a bequest from the museums’ late, longtime supporters Philip and Lynn Straus

Other acquisitions this month include a Bronze Age Peebles stone hoard, and Yatreda Art Collective’s Abyssinian Queen NFT

The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco recently acquired the work, which is being exhibited at the de Young Museum ahead of Martin Luther King Jr Day

The Halsted A&A Foundation is displaying its recent acquisition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago starting 25 January

The experimental images feature in a new exhibition centred on a personal family scrapbook