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Picasso and Ingres Face Off in London

by Michael Glover September 7, 2022September 7, 2022

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

by Michael Glover July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.

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Why Is a Virtual Veronese Artwork at a Physical Museum?

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan March 28, 2022March 28, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan February 1, 2022February 3, 2022

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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The Wild Side of Poussin

by Michael Glover November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

Quite a bit of wildness hides beneath the artist’s cloak of scholarship and respectability.

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A Well-Intentioned Poussin Show Almost Gets it Right

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan October 19, 2021October 20, 2021

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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Work by Carrie Mae Weems Acquired by National Gallery, Displayed With Memorial to Black Union Soldiers

by Cassie Packard May 19, 2021May 20, 2021

Two panels of Weems’s work feature a photograph of a 19th-century memorial to the soldiers in the 54th Regiment, now on display beside the original sculpture.

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The National Gallery of Art Laid Off Its Entire Retail Workforce

Avatar photo by Kriston Capps May 5, 2021November 4, 2021

The museum is outsourcing jobs in its retail shops to Event Network, a company that manages museum stores nationwide.

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National Gallery Shakes off Tired, Lazy View of Artemisia Gentileschi as “Victim”

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan October 12, 2020November 5, 2020

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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The Hidden Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks”

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber August 15, 2019

Advanced imaging techniques have revealed Leonardo’s original design to be vastly different from the final product.

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Former National Gallery Art Educators Win Workers Rights Tribunal

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky March 1, 2019March 4, 2019

The judge ruled that the group should be classified as “workers,” a role which entitles people to more rights than freelance contractors but fewer than full-time “employees.”

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Former National Gallery Educators Commence 10-Day Tribunal for Unfair Dismissal in Gig Economy

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky November 26, 2018

After 27 educators were dismissed from the National Gallery in London, they launched a crowd-funded legal effort to combat the precarity of such unstable employment, backed by vocal support from the UK’s Labour Party.

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