{"id":176530,"date":"2025-09-29T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:24:10","slug":"will-newcastles-new-gallery-face-old-issues-newcastle-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176530\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Newcastle&#8217;s new gallery face old issues? | Newcastle Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">At the time, the then Newcastle Art Gallery was used by the council as an example of why the new rate was required. It needed a new roof as the gallery leaked, and the air-conditioning system needed a complete makeover to protect the valuable art collection. I pointed out that these needs were predictable, right from when the gallery was built, and that if the council had had a properly funded maintenance plan for the gallery, these items could have proceeded routinely, with no new rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time, the then Newcastle Art Gallery was used by the council as an example of why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-176530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}