Albert Einstein famously said the definition of insanity was "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" but Luc Tuymans disagrees.

The Belgian painter reserved his use of the word for the plans to move Antwerp's Museum of Contemporary Art collection to Ghent's Museum of Contemporary Art.

He told the Guardian the plan, which comes after the government canceled a planned $93 million new home for the Antwerp museum, was "simply insane", adding: "You cannot simply take a collection of artworks and transplant it into another ecosystem, because such an ecosystem does not exist."

Anish Kapoor, whose work is in the 8,000-strong Antwerp collection, has said he refuses to "accept" it will be moved as part of the plan which was also condemned by museum leaders including Tate's outgoing director Maria Balshaw, Chris Dercon from the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Pompidou Center's Laurent Le Bon.

It comes against a background of budget cuts across Belgium with reports they might threaten the future of Brussels' new contemporary art museum Kanal before it even opens later this year.

This year's budget for Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - up from $47.8 million last year. The increase in funding for the museum, based across four sites including one in Seoul, is partly a reflection of its success with a record-breaking 3.46 million people paying to see exhibitions last year including a sell-out Ron Mueck show.

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park has unveiled a hat-trick of new outdoor works for the New Year.

The museum in northern England has added work by Vanessa da Silva, Auke de Vries and Damien Hirst to its collection of more than 90 outdoor sculptures.

Hirst, who grew up in nearby Leeds, said his 2019 work The Martyr – Saint Bartholomew is inspired by "the confusion you get between science and religion".

It shows the apostle holding scissors and a scalpel which Hirst said was a reference to cult film Edward Scissorhands as well as the gruesome fate of the religious figure who was said to have been flayed and tortured to death.

The work joins three other pieces by Hirst at the sculpture park.

1 - Paris art dealer Bertrand Scholler is among 10 people found guilty of the online harassment of French First Lady Brigitte Macron by spreading false claims she was born male. He has been ordered to close his X social media account for six months and pay a $700 fine. Macron is also suing American podcaster Candace Owens for slander in the US court for spreading the same claims.

2 - The Steven Holl-designed Bloch building at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is getting a $20 million makeover courtesy of its original funders. The money for the work, which includes replacing its roof, comes from the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation.

3 - New York gallerist Bob Monk has died aged 75. His career included a lengthy stint at Gagosian as well as time working for dealer Leo Castelli and Sotheby’s as well as almost a decade running his own gallery showing work by artists including Jasper Johns, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Bruce Nauman and David Hockney.

4 - The Galerie Allen in Paris has announced the launch of the Jacqueline de Jong Foundation dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Dutch artist who died in 2024. A painter and sculptor, she was involved in the Situationist movement and her work has been shown in New York, Stockholm and Amsterdam.