Tell me what you collect, and we’ll tell you who you are. Art acquisitions can say a lot about a person, but what can they say about an institution, where such decisions are often influenced by trustees and big-money donors? A great deal, it turns out. For instance, the Louvre did not own a single video artwork until this year, when Mohamed Bourouissa’s piece documenting the Tuileries Garden made its way into the collection. Acquisitions also illustrate networks of power and exchange in the art world. One of Tate Modern’s big gets, a stunning Joan Mitchell triptych, came from none other than Miami-based developer and museum founder Jorge Pérez and his wife Darlene. We rounded up 15 museum acquisitions from 2025, including a moving tribute to trans and nonbinary life, sprawling collections of Indigenous and Latin American art, and even a Frank Lloyd Wright home. You can find it at our link in bio. . . . 1 - Detail of Man Ray’s “Le violon d’Ingres” (1924), which is a among a large se...