The Art Newspaper

Newcastle Art Gallery enjoyed a grand reopening in the coal city two hours’ drive north of Sydney at the end of February, following an expansion project costing A$47m ($33m) that has more than doubled its exhibition space and attracted a major gift of art.

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Kelly Akashi, Christina Quarles, Adam Ross and Kathryn Andrews, all of whom lost their homes in the Eaton and Palisades fires, reflect on the last year

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As her landmark Tate Modern exhibition opens, the artist discusses the rise of Reform UK and the British Museum's "terrible colonial past"

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Display of sarcophagi of the Hohenzollerns, which span 500 years, includes a new exhibition

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Today Christophe Léribault, the current president of the Palace of Versailles, has been named the president and director of the Musée du Louvre. Annick Lemoine, the current director of the Petit Palais, will take over the role of president at the Musée d’Orsay.

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A recently discovered set of rock carvings in the Venezuelan state of Monagas is being hailed as the nation’s oldest example of rock art, possibly up to 8,000 years old.

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Venice exhibition of US artist Hernan Bas will tackle issue of mass tourism “The Visitors” includes more than 30 new paintings of youths who represent “cliches of the contemporary tourist”

The exhibition Hernan Bas: The Visitors will feature more than 30 new paintings in an “immersive installation” conceived specially for Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art (7 May-30 August).

The Ukrainian government has adopted a new resolution to simplify the evacuation of more than three million pieces of cultural property from frontline zones. The move came days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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With lower costs than the main event, and in some cases models that are centred on artists, these smaller events seek to offer an enticing alternative to the blue-chip global fairs

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A new show at the Royal Academy which opens to the public on 28 February, comprises more than 90 works by Rose Wylie, including a number of new paintings made over the past two years.

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Countries including the UK and Denmark have pledged to contribute to the new Ukraine Cultural Heritage Fund

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Remains of 19th-century schooner resurface on New Jersey coast The area, known as a “graveyard of the Atlantic”, is the site of thousands of shipwrecks waiting to be discovered

An area of the New Jersey coast, known as a “graveyard of the Atlantic”, is the site of thousands of shipwrecks waiting to be discovered.

In this week’s episode, Ben Luke heard about surprise cuts at the National Gallery, a new exhibition at the Mauritshuis, and the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi

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New biography offers well-crafted story of Louise Bourgeois’s rich life Knife-Woman is the fullest account to date of the life of one of the most influential artists of the last century

The art historian and curator Marie-Laure Bernadac provides the fullest account to date of the life of one of the most influential artists of the last century.

Sotheby's has changed its buyer’s premium fees in locations worldwide, starting from Friday 13 February.

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Turkey’s heritage power grab: new law threatens Istanbul’s opposition-run cultural sites Following changes to legislation governing foundations, the central government can now seize historic properties from local authorities

A new law empowering Turkey’s central government to seize historic properties from local authorities is raising fears that heritage sites are becoming the latest front in a wider campaign against opposition-led municipalities.

London's Delfina Foundation launch residencies for Latin American and Caribbean artists The programme will run over two years and is funded by Miami-based collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez

The Miami-based collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez are backing a new artist residency programme for Latin American and Caribbean artists launching at the Delfina Foundation in London.

Nearly 300 galleries will take part in this year’s edition of Art Basel, when the fair returns to the Swiss city where it all began.

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A magnificent leather and golden silk slipper believed to have once been worn, then lost or given away, by King James II is going on display at Killerton, a mansion in Devon that houses the National Trust’s costume collection.

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The British artist’s exhibition explores Freud’s housekeeper as a poltergeist figure

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On Friday (13 February), the Paris prosecution office revealed it was investigating an alleged €10m, decade-long ticket fraud scheme at the Parisian museum.

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In time for Valentine's Day, the British Museum this week announced it had raised the £3.5m it needs to acquire the Tudor Heart, an intricately decorated golden pendant with links to Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon.

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The Musée de la Vie romantique, in the former home and studios of the Dutch-French painter Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), reopens this month after a €3.8m renovation funded by the city of Paris and private donors who contributed to a fundraising campaign.

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Tate Modern is hosting the largest retrospective to date of one of the UK’s biggest artists, who has never shrunk away from laying bare the most intimate and even traumatic details of her personal life. She speaks to The Art Newspaper.

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Louis Fratino talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work

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The Syrian city of Al-Hasakah is suddenly the owner of a handsome archaeological museum that has never opened its doors to the public. Now the local government and an NGO are hoping it will soon play a role in healing a war-weary society.

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“The most important archaeological finding of the last decade” is how Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, described a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb recently found in San Pablo Huitzo in Oaxaca’s Etla Valley.

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Sotheby’s is ramping up its support for the Royal Academy of Art with the auction of ten works expected to raise up to £2.6m for the London institution.

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The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, announced last month that it will deaccession three bronze sculptures and return them to India.

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London’s Southbank Centre has been awarded Grade II listed status by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, giving the controversial Brutalist landmark statutory heritage protection.

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