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Climate Activists Go Warhol on Van Gogh, Splashing “Sunflowers” With Tomato Soup
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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Picasso and Ingres Face Off in London
Can two paintings an entire exhibition make? Yes. Especially when it is a Spaniard called Pablo Picasso squaring up to a Frenchman called Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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Raphael Between Heaven and Earth
The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.
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London's National Gallery Renames Degas’s "Russian Dancers" as "Ukrainian Dancers"
Calls to rename the mislabeled work have intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Why Is a Virtual Veronese Artwork at a Physical Museum?
To play devil’s advocate, you could argue that eventually technology will be so good that everyone will have VR, and there is no need to travel to the National Gallery at all to see art.
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Dürer's Journeys Offers a Detailed Examination of the Worldly Artist
By recording unusual sights encountered throughout his travels and disseminating these via workshop practices, it’s understandable why Dürer is so prominent in art history.
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How Dürer's Travels Reveal His Voracious Appetite for Art
Albrecht Dürer always wanted to move on, to be somewhere else.
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The Wild Side of Poussin
Quite a bit of wildness hides beneath the artist’s cloak of scholarship and respectability.
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London’s National Gallery Identifies 67 Museum Patrons Connected to Slavery
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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A Well-Intentioned Poussin Show Almost Gets it Right
Poussin and the Dance is a valiant attempt to break into Poussin’s staunchly academic oeuvre and provide a relatable point of entry, highlighting the exciting elements of revelry and movement despite impenetrable and unemotional rendering.
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National Gallery Shakes off Tired, Lazy View of Artemisia Gentileschi as “Victim”
Seeing how impressive and successful Gentileschi was in her lifetime, it is staggering that it has taken a show such as this to dispel her unfair dismissal by art history.
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Titian, in the Harsh Light of Day
Titian was, as the great English poet Geoffrey Chaucer would put it, a 'man's man,’ accustomed to showing off his posturing pride.