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

An extended reality platform being developed by a Scottish university allows users to “teleport” around virtual museums

A small army of carpenters combined traditional craftmanship with digital design tools to rebuild the medieval roof frame known as "the forest"

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

Scholars and heirs are divided over bronze editions attributed to the British-Mexican Surrealist’s final years

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

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

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

With workshops, crafting sessions and special events, Art Road Trip is collaborating with communities across the UK to produce inspired results

The National Gallery, which once housed the Royal Academy of Arts, has been home to study, scholarship and education since its earliest days

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

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

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

Live performances and sculptural installations at the Hamburger Bahnhof take inspiration from biochemistry and Ursula K. Le Guin

La Specola reopens, displaying its realistic 18th- and 19th-century corpse stand-ins

Plus, Morel cup enters the Musée d'Orsay and non-profit Joy of Giving Something gifts photography collection to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The founder of Nanjing’s Deji Art Museum describes his approach to collecting and his love of Taihu stones

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

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

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is staging a huge exhibition of the Romanian artist’s work with a “lively and joyful” thematic hang

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

The Korean-born artist says he was drawn to the southern French city’s ancient roots as a fitting place for his work

Plus, last Donatello in private hands is sold to Bargello and Courtauld’s Claudette Johnson purchase helps demarginalise Black women

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material

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

Suzuko Yamada on reducing a bar down to its bare essentials, her vision for architecture and her favourite drinking spot in Tokyo.

From Old Master portraits and grainy photographs to sculptures on chairs and naked performances

Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars

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