Hannah McGivern

Green wood, axes and oaks: how ancient skills helped to raise Notre-Dame's new roof

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

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: 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

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'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

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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

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.

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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

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