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How Dürer’s Travels Reveal His Voracious Appetite for Art

by Michael Glover December 29, 2021December 29, 2021

Albrecht Dürer always wanted to move on, to be somewhere else.

Posted inBooks

A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019

by Michael Glover November 30, 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

by Shirine Saad October 22, 2018October 22, 2018

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

by Naomi Polonsky August 27, 2018August 24, 2018

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

by Jesse Locker July 12, 2018July 12, 2018

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

by Olivia McEwan January 10, 2018

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

by Claire Voon December 21, 2017December 21, 2017

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

by Menachem Wecker May 17, 2017May 17, 2017

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.

The reproduction of the Borgherini Chapel by Factum Arte (photo © Factum Arte)
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How Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s Roman Chapel Was Recreated in London

by Olivia McEwan April 17, 2017

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.

Thomas Gainsborough, "Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett" (aka "The Morning Walk") (1785), oil on canvas, 236.2 x 179.1 cm (© The National Gallery, London; via Wikimedia Commons)
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Thomas Gainsborough Painting Gouged at London’s National Gallery

by Benjamin Sutton March 20, 2017March 21, 2017

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

by Benjamin Sutton September 2, 2016September 3, 2016

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.

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A Show About Delacroix’s Influence Is Sorely Missing His Work

by Olivia McEwan May 4, 2016May 3, 2016

LONDON — Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art suffers from too few of Delacroix’s works and far too much of the “modern art.”

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