NEW YORK—The Museum of Modern Art has acquired a group of significant works of modern and contemporary art, museum director Glenn Lowry recently announced.

The acquisitions include a major new series by Gerhard Richter, 892-1-12, Abstract Paintings (2005), comprising 12 paintings; a painting by Elizabeth Murray, Do the Dance (2005); two paintings by Luc Tuymans, Demolition and The Secretary of State (both 2005); a glass sculpture by Roni Horn, Untitled (Aretha) (2002-04); a sculpture by Sergio Camargo, Oree (c. 1962); and an untitled 1963 painting by Mira Schendel.