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Gaudi’s original vision for Casa Batlló has been restored

The Art Newspaper

A year-long renovation project, using local artisans in ironwork, glass, wood and ceramics, has rebuilt Gaudi’s innovative vaulted balcony support system, reinstated lost courtyard features such as its planters and pergola and restored original hues of the façade. m for immersive exhibitions Alexandra F.

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Introducing Julia Day, the Frick’s new chief conservator

The Art Newspaper

The Frick’s vastly expanded ability to look after its collection and displays gets proper due this week, when the museum announces the appointment of a new chief conservator: Julia Day, a Frick veteran who left the institution in 2022 to become a senior conservator at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

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New photography venue to open in Dublin’s gentrifying east docklands

The Art Newspaper

The centre opens on 17 July with Foreword , an exhibition featuring Malian-French artist Anna Safiatou Touré’s Gamanké Museum (2025), American artist Alex Prager’s Run (2022), Irish-Iraqi artist Basil Al-Rawi’s House of Memory (2022), and 12 others. It explores how images shape power, perception, and extremism.

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Lesia Vasylchenko wins the PinchukArtCentre Prize

The Art Newspaper

The PinchukArtCentre prize is typically awarded every two years, but a winner was last named in 2022. The eight-minute video Tachyoness (2022) , based on sunrises from 1990 to 2022, considers AI’s impact on memory. The 18-year-old artist Veronika Kozhushko was killed last August in a Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv.

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Artists travel back in time with work created from ancient wood discovered at site of lost London river

The Art Newspaper

It also found a vast quantity of engineered, utilitarian timber, in superlative condition. Timbers dated to first century AD The excellent condition of the timbers has made it possible to date them to AD50-80. Subsequent flooding saw them repeatedly bring in rubbish from one of the dumps in the city to raise and stabilise the ground.

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Reputed Donatello bust taken into hiding by Slovak government

The Art Newspaper

The Italian art historian, who curated an acclaimed Donatello exhibition at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi in 2022, says he would welcome the opportunity to view the Levoča bust in person to verify his opinion, which is currently based on viewing detailed images of the bust in print and online.

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A Clara Peeters self-portrait and the only work for which Gandhi posed are among this summer’s auction highlights

The Art Newspaper

While both the attribution and the subject have been the focus of debate for centuries, Sotheby’s posits this painting is a self-portrait by Clara Peeters.

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