24 h. ago Vermeer’s vandal: the untold story of a vicious attack at London's National Gallery in 1968

Vermeer’s vandal: the untold story of a vicious attack at London's National Gallery in 1968  The Art Newspaper

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4 d. ago Want to be a museum influencer? London’s National Gallery launches open call for content creators

Want to be a museum influencer? London’s National Gallery launches open call for content creators  The Art Newspaper

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4 d. ago National Gallery Edinburgh: The heated underground baths once considered for flagship art gallery

Drawings have revealed extra additions that were once considered for the National Gallery in Edinburgh.

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8 d. ago Forecast for both Chappell Roan Edinburgh gigs as heatwave turns to showers

The pop icon is playing two Summer Sessions shows in the capital this week.

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9 d. ago The National Gallery in London dedicates an exhibition to Joseph Wright of Derby and his candlelight paintings

The National Gallery in London dedicates an exhibition to Joseph Wright of Derby and his candlelight paintings  Finestre sull'Arte

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1 week ago Trump administration to expand review of Smithsonian museums to ‘get Woke out’

Exclusive: White House flagged institutions including those for Latino, African and Asian art for review, document showsAmid the Donald Trump administration’s heavy-handed review of Smithsonian museums, the Guardian has seen a document compiled by the White House that argues the widely visited cultural institutions have overly negative portrayals of US history, from a Benjamin Franklin exhibit that links his scientific achievements to his ownership of enslaved people and a film about George Floyd’s murder that it says mischaracterizes the police.The document, based on public submissions shared with the administration, shows that seven museums have so far been flagged for review: the National Museum of American History, National Museum of the American Latino, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of African Art, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of Asian Art. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Britain could burn in 'firewave' as urgent 'very flammable' warning issued

The warning comes as firefighters battled three separate heath fires in London and a dramatic gorse blaze on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh in recent weeks as Britain baked in another heatwave

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2 w. ago ‘Your work changed the course of my entire life’: novelist Douglas Stuart meets painter Jenny Saville

He was a struggling 16-year-old when he first saw her paintings. Now, the Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain sits down with the record-breaking artist to talk early success, bad reviews, and the joys of making artIn the summer of 1992, I was a 16-year-old who was watching his mother drink herself to death. I had a desperate need to find work and somewhere to stay, and so remaining in education didn’t seem like a possibility. I had two teachers who saw how I was struggling. They dreamed a future for me that I could never have imagined for myself. One evening they took me up to the degree show at the Glasgow School of Art, and there I came face to face with the paintings of Jenny Saville.The power of that encounter has never left me. Those images were fierce and confrontational. A few months after the degree show, I lost my mother to her addiction. With the support of my teachers, I eventually finished school and went on to art school and built a career in design. Meanwhile, ...

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2 w. ago I thought I didn’t care about Renaissance art. Then life happened to me – and I saw its power | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

There’s a reason these works have influenced great contemporary artists such as Jenny Saville. It just took me a while to truly see itThere is a painting that I think about often. The Madonna del Parto, a masterpiece painted by Piero della Francesca in about 1460, is housed in a dedicated museum in the Tuscan town of Monterchi. It depicts a heavily pregnant Virgin Mary flanked by two angels. To local women, this painting is considered a protector of fertility and the lives of pregnant women during birth. During the second world war, local women surrounded two men whom they had mistaken for a Nazi intent on stealing it. In 1954, they led a protest against its proposed movement to Florence for an exhibition. I remember reading as a student that the women had lain down in the street to block its departure.I thought about those women again yesterday, as I walked around the Jenny Saville exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, tracing the influence of the Renaissance on her work. Sa...

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3 w. ago Zooming right in: the vivid landscapes revealed in nanophotography – in pictures

Each year researchers at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology mark National Science Week with a photography contest to see who can snap the best image. Here are some of this year’s entries Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The best pictures from the National Eisteddfod 2025 in Wrexham

Next year, it will be the turn of Pembrokeshire to host the National Eisteddfod

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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4 w. ago Scottish museum with Dalí masterpiece and WW2 artefacts named second best in the world

Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery is the only museum with a better rating than the iconic Scottish institution.

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4 w. 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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4 w. ago The best pictures from the first days of the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham

Thousands have been to the Maes in Wrexham for the National Eisteddfod's opening days

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