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6 d. ago Locatelli at the National Gallery, London: ‘Come for the Michelangelo, stay for the orecchiette’ – restaurant review

Locatelli at the National Gallery, London: ‘Come for the Michelangelo, stay for the orecchiette’ – restaurant review  The Guardian

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9 d. ago London’s National Gallery Taps the Public to Help Chart Its Next Chapter

London’s National Gallery Taps the Public to Help Chart Its Next Chapter  Artnet News

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1 week ago London’s National Gallery Creates Panel of Citizens to Shape its Future

London’s National Gallery Creates Panel of Citizens to Shape its Future  ARTnews.com

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1 week ago Power to the people: London's National Gallery seeks public panel to help shape its future

Power to the people: London's National Gallery seeks public panel to help shape its future  The Art Newspaper

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1 week ago Children’s charity calls for new trustees in the Highlands and Tayside

Volunteers in the Highlands and Tayside are being encouraged to become a trustee of The Archie Foundation and use their skills to shape the future of the children’s charity.

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1 week ago Millet: Life on the Land review – phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil

National Gallery, LondonThere’s a undeniably erotic charge to Millet’s paintings of gloomy hard work – reminding us that, behind the hoes, these are real people with real desiresThe figures in Jean-François Millet’s 1859 painting The Angelus, a French icon that’s come to the UK on loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, seem extremely odd on close inspection. Their faces are obscure, their bodies intriguing under their shapeless work clothes. What age are they? How are they related? The man is quite young, his top shirt button loose, although his legs are as stiff as a doll’s, inside thick, rough-cut trousers. It’s harder to tell the woman’s age because she stands in profile, a breeze pressing her heavy skirt against her legs, as she clasps her hands. They might be a married couple or, as this painting’s unlikely fan Salvador Dalí claimed, mother and son. Their physicality is intense. The phallic prongs of a thick wooden potato fork and wheelbarrow shafts add to the feeling that, now ...

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1 week ago Doctors asked to help shape NHS future in 'long overdue' Scottish Government 'once

The government is launching a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’ for doctors to shape the future of the NHS.

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last month Humble peasants or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinationsIt was Salvador Dalí who turned a small, intense rural scene called The Angelus, painted by Jean-François Millet in 1857-59 and hugely popular in its day, into a totem of modern art.In the original, a pious peasant couple have heard the Angelus bell from a distant church, the Catholic call to prayer, and paused their work digging potatoes to lower their heads and pray. But from Dalí’s writings, we know he saw far more in the painting, from obscene sex to family tragedy. In one of his many versions of it, Atavism at Twilight, the couple sprout agricultural implements from their bodies. In his surreal drawings these good country people become mouldering, mummified husks, or are transformed into fossils by time and sadness. Now that the original painting is being lent by the Musée d’Orsay to the...

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