Art
East of the Mississippi highlights how early photographic efforts homed in on Americans’ leisure pursuits, particularly travel to popular getaway spots such as Niagara Falls and New England’s White Mountains.
Art
For its current exhibition on the Renaissance artists, the National Gallery collaborated with Factum Arte to create a complex reproduction of one of their most famous collaborations.
In Brief
On Saturday, a man wielding a screwdriver cut two long gashes into "The Morning Walk," though conservators believe the damage can be easily repaired.
Art
In direct response to scenes of mythical debauchery depicted in paintings by Titian and Poussin, George Shaw uses the woodland backdrop to imagine the morning after.
Opinion
Given that so much of Monty Python's humor was predicated on testing and twisting codes of civility and decorum, it's surprising their Flying Circus didn't alight more frequently in that most stuffily decorous setting, the art museum.
Art
LONDON — Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art suffers from too few of Delacroix’s works and far too much of the “modern art.”
Art
LONDON — When was the last time you saw a survey of one artist that could dispel completely the need for filler?
News
Today, members of the UK's Public and Commercial Services Union commenced "indefinite strike action" at London's National Gallery in a protest against the museum's ongoing privatization plans.
News
In January, many were surprised to find that BP's controversial sponsorship of Tate Britain represented a relatively small slice of its overall funding.
Art
LONDON — On February 4 from 9 to 11 am the National Gallery of London witnessed the second episode in a five-day strike by museum staff and members of the Public and Commercial Services Union
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News
On Monday, the National Gallery of London transferred security services for its Sainsbury Wing over to the private security company CIS. The move is the latest in a bitter dispute over the privatization of a huge number of jobs at the museum: 400 of 600 positions, or two-thirds of the museum's entir
Art
LONDON — Rembrandt: the Late Works is that truly rare event: a study focusing on an artist whose quality of output is so universally lauded that is fully supported by staggering loans never previously shown in this combination or indeed in the same country.