Hannah McGivern
This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Revealed: the surreal dispute over Leonora Carrington’s late bronze sculptures
Scholars and heirs are divided over bronze editions attributed to the British-Mexican Surrealist’s final years
Acquisitions round-up: Pierre Subleyras’s papal commission, Lasansky's horrors of the Holocaust and Archie Moore's sprawling family tree
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Acquisitions round-up: Gauguin’s Le Toit Bleu is among this month’s picks
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
British Museum reveals that 2022 bequest from tycoon and former trustee was worth £123m
Joseph Hotung’s collection of hundreds of jades, as well as metalwork and early Chinese porcelain is one of the most valuable gifts the museum has ever received
The National Gallery: a place of learning on the road
With workshops, crafting sessions and special events, Art Road Trip is collaborating with communities across the UK to produce inspired results
'We’re embedding learning into the building': inside the National Gallery's upscaled education programme
The National Gallery, which once housed the Royal Academy of Arts, has been home to study, scholarship and education since its earliest days
Acquisitions round-up: Zandra Rhodes textiles inspired by Uluru, a Cavalcanti head and a portrait by Mary Beale
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
I am Discosailing: Rasheed Araeen's water ballet comes to east London's outdoor sculpture trail, The Line
The artist's 1970s concept, brought to life in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, invites the public to perform as a floating sculpture moving with the wind and water
Kiki Kogelnik: the 'secret' Austrian Pop artist who made out-of-this-world art
An exhibition at Pace in London wants to introduce an international audience to the artist's multi-faceted output, which drew on sci-fi, space exploration and consumer society
Alexandra Pirici's celebratory science experiment goes on show in Berlin
Live performances and sculptural installations at the Hamburger Bahnhof take inspiration from biochemistry and Ursula K. Le Guin
Macabre wax models take limelight in Florence museum
La Specola reopens, displaying its realistic 18th- and 19th-century corpse stand-ins
Acquisitions round-up: Louvre acquires Jean-Siméon Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries after fundraising campaign
Plus, Morel cup enters the Musée d'Orsay and non-profit Joy of Giving Something gifts photography collection to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
'I am looking forward to works that resonate with the concept of blackness': Wu Tiejun on his hopes for Art Basel Hong Kong
The founder of Nanjing’s Deji Art Museum describes his approach to collecting and his love of Taihu stones
Acquisitions round-up: Cleveland museum buys a sumptuous 16th-century wooden carving, once part of an altarpiece
Plus, the UK’s first permanent public sculpture by a Black female artist goes to Warwick University, and National Gallery of Art lands a collection of 20 shadow boxes by Joseph Cornell
Sneak preview: Asian pavilions at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Decomposing fruit, a scent-diffusing figurine and a fantasy dragon ship are just some of the works that explore themes of identity, migration and memory at the prestigious event this year
How Constantin Brâncuși shaped the course of sculpture in the 20th century
The Centre Pompidou in Paris is staging a huge exhibition of the Romanian artist’s work with a “lively and joyful” thematic hang
Acquisitions round-up: the Städel Museum in Frankfurt shows off its Honoré Daumier bequest
Plus, Olmec statuette becomes Kimbell Art Museum’s “most significant work of ancient American art” and Madrid’s Museo del Romanticismo buys an early Goya
In Arles, Lee Ufan, ‘the man in the middle’, finds a lasting home
The Korean-born artist says he was drawn to the southern French city’s ancient roots as a fitting place for his work
Acquisitions round-up: stained glass window by Tiffany’s greatest female designer finds new home at the Met
Plus, last Donatello in private hands is sold to Bargello and Courtauld’s Claudette Johnson purchase helps demarginalise Black women
The must-see exhibitions in 2024: from two Michelangelo shows in London to the Met's most expensive painting
We round-up the biggest shows opening each month
Raac and ruin: museums search for unsafe concrete—but can they afford repairs?
Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material
Two overlooked Asian artists who left a mark on Modern British art celebrated with UK exhibitions
The lives and work of Singaporean-British sculptor Kim Lim and the Chinese artist and poet Li Yuan-chia will be explored at the Hepworth Wakefield and Kettle’s Yard
‘We wanted to test if people can still perceive the space’: the architect behind Art Week Tokyo's pop-up bar
Suzuko Yamada on reducing a bar down to its bare essentials, her vision for architecture and her favourite drinking spot in Tokyo.
The biggest museum shows to see around London during Frieze week
From Old Master portraits and grainy photographs to sculptures on chairs and naked performances
Acquisitions round-up: Paula Rego abortion etchings acquired by New York's MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars
There is more to the female figures in Peter Paul Rubens’s paintings than being ‘Rubenesque’
An exhibition at London's Dulwich Picture Gallery will look at the “varied and important place occupied by women” in the life and work of the Flemish Baroque master
Acquisitions round-up: London museums jointly purchase pre-Raphaelite painting that depicts Jamaican woman
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Special report: Funding cuts and weak economy send UK’s visual arts into crisis
From regional galleries becoming “unsustainable” to brutal cuts to funding of museums, galleries and arts and humanities education, the sector is in an increasingly perilous state
Natural History Museum: how the UK's most popular museum is trying to prevent humanity going the way of the dinosaurs
The London institution is putting a five-acre garden development and climate science at the forefront of its educational programming