The number of full-time staff remaining at Chicago's De Paul Art Museum which recently announced it is closing on June 30.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has produced 3D scans of more than 100 works from its collection as "a resource for research, exploration, and curiosity".

The museum said the scans, which include a copy of Van Gogh's Sunflowers once owned by Paul Gauguin as well as works by Monet, ancient Egyptian statues and a Greek vase, are available on its website and would be followed by more.

It said the images, which can be zoomed in on, rotated and examined, will bring "unprecedented access to significant works of art".

Tributes have been paid to video art pioneer Ulysses Jenkins who died on Monday aged 89.

His death was announced by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles which held a retrospective of his work in 2022.

In an online tribute, the museum hailed him as "a trailblazing figure" and a "true video griot" who had "a profound impact on artists, students, and audiences, and his work continues to shape the field in lasting ways".

His work also included performance art, painting and photography. A memorial will be held in the city in June.

Australia's newly expanded Newcastle Art Gallery re-opens tonight thanks to $34 million in funding and approximately 15,000 cubic meters of concrete.

That is how much filler was poured into a series of old mine workings beneath the building up the coast from Sydney before construction work could begin above ground.

Gallery director Lauretta Morton told the Sydney Morning Herald: "We had the big tanks out the back; trucks and pumps going on behind the scaffold, and people were seeing nothing being built and, yet, it was all happening underground."

The extension has added eight more galleries to the building which is home to more than 7,000 works with 500 of them on show in the opening exhibition Iconic Loved Unexpected including pieces by Emily Kam Kngwarray, Daniel Boyd and Margaret Olley.

1 - Salvador Dali's largest ever work is expected to fetch around $350,000 when it is sold at Bonham's annual surrealist sale in Paris on March 26. Bacchanale was painted in around 1939 for the New York Opera House and is made up of 13 panels stretching to around 65.6 feet to 98.4 feet.

2 - The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has been given 189 prints from the foundation of American photographer Irving Penn. They are from Penn's Cuzco series which he took in Peru in December 1948 after setting up a studio in the Andean city for three days taking more than 2,000 portraits and street scenes.

3 - Artists including Anicka Yi and Andrea Bowers will join curators and museum chiefs at the first-ever Making Their Mark Forum in Washington D.C. from March 5 to 7. The forum was launched to "celebrate the achievements of women artists" and "advance gender equity in the arts".