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Is That a Nike Shoe in a 17th-Century Painting?

by Rhea Nayyar May 23, 2023May 24, 2023

Visitors to the National Gallery in London have spotted what looks like a pair of Nike sneakers in Ferdinand Bol’s “Portrait of Frederick Sluysken” (1652).

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A Crowd-Pleasing Party of Post-Impressionists

by Michael Glover April 30, 2023April 28, 2023

Here they are at the National Gallery, almost all at once, all those modern artists we came here to see, those we have come here to report having seen later.

Posted inArt

In Celebration of Unloveliness

by Michael Glover April 9, 2023April 10, 2023

We go to Raphael for idealized beauty. But what if a painting were the opposite of beautiful, and utterly arresting for that very reason?

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Renaissance Portrait of “Ugly Duchess” Likely Depicts a Man

by Rhea Nayyar March 26, 2023March 24, 2023

A curator at London’s National Gallery believes the subject of painter Quinten Massys’s painting “is most likely a he.”

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The Van Gogh Is Fine; You Won’t Be

Avatar photo by Rebecca Zorach October 19, 2022October 20, 2022

The real target of Just Stop Oil’s tomato soup action wasn’t Van Gogh’s painting. It was our complacency.

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Climate Activists Go Warhol on Van Gogh, Splashing “Sunflowers” With Tomato Soup

by Hakim Bishara October 14, 2022October 14, 2022

The work, which is behind glass at London’s National Gallery, was part of Just Stop Oil’s latest protest action.

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London’s National Gallery Renames Degas’s “Russian Dancers” as “Ukrainian Dancers”

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 5, 2022April 5, 2022

Calls to rename the mislabeled work have intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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London’s National Gallery Identifies 67 Museum Patrons Connected to Slavery

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 10, 2021November 10, 2021

A new report by the museum names the “art collectors, connoisseurs, donors, and founders of museums and galleries across Britain” who benefitted from enslavement.

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Titian, in the Harsh Light of Day

by Michael Glover March 28, 2020March 29, 2020

Titian was, as the great English poet Geoffrey Chaucer would put it, a ‘man’s man,’ accustomed to showing off his posturing pride.

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Longing to Know More About David Bomberg, Who Blazed Like a Comet Through London’s Stuffy Art Scene

by Michael Glover January 29, 2020

Young Bomberg and the Old Masters, presented in a finite form, could have been so much bigger, more ambitious, and more intellectually adventurous.

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When Leonardo da Vinci Just Isn’t Enough

by Michael Glover November 16, 2019November 15, 2019

Leonardo’s “Virgin” meets virtual reality — simpleminded in the extreme.

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Gauguin’s Predatory Colonial Gaze

by Michael Glover October 26, 2019October 18, 2021

Is it fair to use contemporary standards to judge a man who died 116 years ago?

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Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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