Police responded to reports of a man falling from a height at Somerset House, where the Courtauld Gallery is located.
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The Illicit Allure of Art Forgery
An anarchic desire to undermine the art world’s institutions lends art forgers a roguish, rebellious identity that is both compelling and unsavory.
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Museum to Exhibit Its Impressive Collection of … Fakes?
Art and Artifice at the Courtauld Gallery in London will include 30 artworks once mistaken as originals by Sandro Botticelli, Auguste Rodin, and others
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What Does Peter Doig Have to Do With the Impressionists?
A new exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery pits Doig against artists like Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Does it work?
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The Private Passions of Henry Fuseli
Fuseli and the Modern Woman is immensely pleasurable for the technical facility of an artist pursuing his own personal interests in an incredibly idiosyncratic style.
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It Took Three Hours to Unglue Protesters From Van Gogh Frame
Two climate activists from Just Stop Oil were found guilty of criminal damage after gluing themselves to the 18th-century frame at the Courtauld Gallery.
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Delicately Balancing Psychoanalysis and Art History in a Van Gogh Exhibition
Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face after another.
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Thomas Gainsborough’s Quietly Passionate Portrait
Margaret Gainsborough was a woman who knew her own worth.
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Courtauld Institute of Art Students Mount a Political Exhibition About Absence
The Courtauld Institute of Art’s gallery has offered MA Curating students the chance to put together a show, which, overall, feels politically relevant.
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The Divine Messages of a Victorian Spiritualist’s Drawings
LONDON — Frenetic spirals of color and swirling sinuous lines characterize the disembodied ink and watercolor works by Georgiana Houghton, currently on show at the Courtauld Gallery.
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Botticelli’s Hallucinatory ‘Divine Comedy’ Drawings Return to England After 130 Years
Lucifer gobbles up the souls of three traitors in an icy inferno, sinners are cooked in baths of tar, and a gauzy-robed Beatrice floats in the heavens.
