Fixing a failed security system and restoring a crumbling building does not come cheap as visitors to the Louvre are about to find out.

The Paris museum led by Laurence des Cars just agreed to increase ticket prices for visitors from outside the European Economic Area by 45%.

That means tourists from as far afield as the US and China - and post Brexit the UK as well - will now pay around $37 - up from $25 - to see its collection from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Marlene Dumas.

Figures for 2024 show the Louvre attracted 8.7 million visitors that year with 77% from outside France.

The increase has been criticized by unions representing staff, with one describing the move as "discrimination" against foreign visitors.

A planned renovation of the building, announced before the headline-making heist which saw $102 million of jewelry stolen from the museum, is predicted to cost as much as $924 million.

Visitors have long complained of lengthy queues and creaking facilities unable to cope with the number of people wanting to see the museum. Earlier this month it closed one of its galleries after it was deemed unsafe because of structural weaknesses.

The cost of the redevelopment of the Bendigo Art Gallery in Australia which closes its doors on Monday ahead of two years of construction work with re-opening pencilled in for early 2028. Its collection of more than 5,000 works includes pieces by Ernest Waterlow, Charles Conder and Kate Beynon.

A major exhibition of work by US Land artist Nancy Holt will open next May at the Goodwood Art Foundation in the UK.

The gallery near Chichester, in southern England, will also show some of her work outside in its 70-acre grounds.

Holt, who died in 2014, was best known for her large-scale earthworks and site-specific installations but also worked in video art, photography and drawing.

Holt and her husband Robert Smithson spent a month traveling through England and Wales in 1969 resulting in a series of photographs called Trail Markers documenting orange‑dots painted on rocks & fence posts along walking routes in Dartmoor National Park.

Foundation director Richard Grindy said the "first significant exhibition in the UK" dedicated to Holt would "showcase the range and depth" of her work.

It has 20,000 square meters of gallery space, work by Matisse, Picasso and Giacometti coming on loan from the Pompidou Center and an opening date of November 28 next year but the future of Brussels' Kanal art complex is in doubt.

Construction work on the gallery, built in a former Citroen garage near the city center, includes a playground designed by Turner Prize winners Assemble and is running on schedule but has hit the immovable object of Belgium's paralysed politics.

Eighteen months after regional elections, the capital still does not have a functioning government and one of the few things its political parties agree on is plans to slash Kanal's budget by more than half.

Its artistic director Kasia Redzisz told the Guardian she "never anticipated" the political problems it faces, adding: "If there isn’t a decision on the budget, we risk having to stop construction, threatening the entire project’s future."

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