London gallery to undergo biggest transformation in its 200-year history, with Kengo Kuma’s design called ‘exemplary’
The National Gallery has announced that its largest and most significant transform…
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Fury as Christian martyr St Sebastian is depicted as an Asian transgender man in National Gallery exhibit ⊖⊖
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St Sebastian, who secretly aided Christians, was sent to be executed by archers and shot with arrows, before being clubbed to death on the order of the Roman emperor Diocletian.
20 days ago
Michaelina Wautier review – an astounding lost artist steps out of her male contemporaries’ shadows ⊕⊕
Royal Academy, London
Wautier’s mighty paintings have been misattributed to her male peers for 300 years, but now UK audiences can enjoy their first encounter with a 17th-century trailblazer
Art histor…
39 days ago
'Sneaky' National Gallery is accused of quietly hiking membership fees by 90 per cent as staff face job cuts amid £8.2million deficit ⊖
Disgruntled visitors say they have been automatically upgraded from a £68 annual membership to a £130 subscription - or as much as £185 with a guest option.
49 days ago
Neither saint nor sinner, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene is electrifyingly alive ⊕⊕
Soon to go on display at the National Gallery of Art in DC, it took a female artist to portray the biblical figure not as shamed and repentant but in the throes of ecstatic rapture
A woman knocks her …
3 months ago
New Melania film features a 'priceless' Renoir painting on the wall of her office... but the actual artwork is in a gallery in London ⊖
In the past two years it has been loaned to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and The National Gallery of Art in Washington - but has never graced the President's New York home.
4 months ago
Women Photographers 1900 to 1975: A Legacy of Light – in pictures ⊕
The new National Gallery of Victoria exhibition honours the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than 80 female artists working between 1900 and 1975. Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy o…
5 months ago
US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for non-violent art museum protester ○
‘It’s hard to fathom how a peaceful protester can receive more prison time than many of the insurrectionists’ said one researcher, of Timothy Martin’s sentence
Climate activists have condemned an 18-m…
‘Decision to do this secretly is surprising’: NGV returns painting lost in Nazi era to Jewish family ○
The museum has declined to answer key questions about the decision to return the artwork, prompting the New York-based researcher who uncovered the story to challenge the NGV’s handling of the case
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6 months ago
I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally audiobook review – the life of a hospitality legend ⊖⊖
Richard E Grant narrates the restaurateur’s candid memoir about his life’s highs, lows and biggest regrets – including barring James Corden
The memoir from Keith McNally, the British-born restaurateur…