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London’s National Gallery to Open New Wing
The new space will house an “expanded collection,” suggesting possible shifts in the museum’s longstanding focus on art made before 1900.
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Art Review
A Neo-Impressionism Show for the One Percent
An exhibition shows off the movement’s socialist politics via works a wealthy benefactor unironically chomped up.
Art Review
A No Kings Movement for 19th-Century Art
Jean-François Millet was a hero to van Gogh for the way he drew attention to the nobility and heroism of the seldom howling underdog.
Art Review
José María Velasco Lovingly Captured a Changing Mexico
He celebrated the physical entity of Mexico in its exactness, rather than appealing to ingrained nationalistic European sensibilities of history painting.
Art
The Visions of Parmigianino
The artist’s career in Rome was curtailed by the sacking of the city in 1527 by the armies of Charles V but they were so impressed by his visionary painting that they spared his life.
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UK’s National Gallery Bans Liquids After Climate and Gaza Protests
The policy comes after environmental protesters “souped” two glass-protected van Gogh paintings at the museum last month.
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Gaza Photo Pasted on Picasso Painting at UK’s National Gallery
Activists stuck the image of a Palestinian mother and child to the protective glass over "Motherhood" (1901) and called for an arms embargo on Israel.
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Two Van Gogh Works “Souped” in Protest of Climate Activists’ Jail Sentences
“Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history,” Just Stop Oil members said as they splashed the paintings.
Art
London’s National Gallery Celebrates Its Birthday With Van Gogh
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers boasts some curatorial firsts and delights in the artist’s explosion of experimental color and expressive, urgent feeling.
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David Hockney Celebrates His Renaissance Inspirations
The core message of visual analysis and close looking in Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look is an apt mantra for the National Gallery's history.
Art
A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting
Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
Art
Two Views of a Family Breakfast
Twenty years after creating his pastel “Lavergne Family Breakfast,” Jean-Etienne Liotard recreated it in oil, and it is astonishing to see how close the two versions are.