Would it be ridiculous to suggest that Freud lacks nobility or generosity, or even that his pessimism reduces him?
The National Gallery London
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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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A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019
Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.
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After Years of Protests, Shell Ends Corporate Partnership with National Gallery
The decision signals a shift in sponsorship patterns for cultural institutions.
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Former Educators at London’s National Gallery Are Taking Legal Action, Alleging Unfair Dismissal
The 27 claimants are alleging unfair dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of length of service, age, and sex.
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The National Gallery Acquires Its First Painting by a Woman Since 1991
The London museum’s acquisition of what is believed to be a rare Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait demands a closer look at the world the artist inhabited in 17th-century Florence.
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One Color But Not One Dimensional
The curators of Monochrome: Painting in Black and White adopt an inventive approach by selecting examples that take the viewer through an utterly absorbing display in which there are almost as many uses for grayscale as there are exhibits.
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Art Historian Finds Missing Monet Painting Through a Google Search
Believed to have been missing since 1895, Monet’s painting “Effet de Brouillard” (1872) will soon go on view.
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Piecing Together the Histories of a Series of Stolen Paintings
Among all the descriptions on all the different museum websites of a group of paintings originally designed to be shown together, there isn’t very much in the way of assuming responsibility or prioritizing transparency.
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How Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s Roman Chapel Was Recreated in London
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.
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Thomas Gainsborough Painting Gouged at London’s National Gallery
On Saturday, a man wielding a screwdriver cut two long gashes into “The Morning Walk,” though conservators believe the damage can be easily repaired.
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Monty Python Goes to the Art Museum
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.
