5 h. ago An Art Lover’s Dream? A Luxury Sleepover at London’s National Gallery Is Up for Grabs

An Art Lover’s Dream? A Luxury Sleepover at London’s National Gallery Is Up for Grabs  Artnet News

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11 h. ago Want to sleep with Botticelli and Titian? London’s National Gallery launches sleepover prize

Want to sleep with Botticelli and Titian? London’s National Gallery launches sleepover prize  The Art Newspaper

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12 h. ago National Gallery to let one person sleep overnight for first time

To choose the lucky person, the gallery is launching a prize draw.

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21 h. ago National Gallery to let one person sleep overnight in ‘first’ as section reopens

To choose the lucky person, the gallery is launching a prize draw.

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54 h. ago 60 stunning Grand National photos of stylish first arrivals at Aintree

One of the biggest days in the racing calendar is finally here and racegoers are looking amazing

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3 d. ago The best pictures of Ladies Day at the Grand National as best dressed announced

The Style Awards will recognise the very best dressed in Liverpool on Friday, with some superb prizes on offer.

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4 d. ago 22 pictures of Grand National opening day as racegoers enjoy the sunshine

The three-day racing festival got underway at Aintree on Thursday

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9 d. ago What is the Smithsonian Institution and why is it important?

A Trump executive order aims to uproot ‘anti-American ideology’ from the US museum and research complexOn Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, a behemoth of a research and museum organization that operates more than 20 museum and research centers and is visited by millions of people each year, mainly in Washington DC and New York City. The museums include the National Museum of African Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), which Trump name-checked in his executive order. Trump’s executive order instructs Vice-President JD Vance to “eliminate improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian’s museums.The Smithsonian has already come under scrutiny by Trump and his allies. Earlier this year, the institution was forced to close its diversity office and froze all federal hiring. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Emma Sleep's foam pillow in spring sale for under £50 and shoppers say it's a 'game

The Emma Original Foam Pillow has been lauded by shoppers online, with one person saying it gave them their 'best night's sleep ever' - and now it's on sale

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1 week ago Dressing Naomi Campbell, Cate Blanchett and a show inside a skirt: Martin Grant’s 40

From 1980s Melbourne to 2020s Paris, the Australian fashion designer reflects on some of the highlights of his career, featured in a major retrospective at the National Gallery of VictoriaMartin Grant exhibition is at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV in Melbourne from 25 March 2025 to 26 January 2026Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...

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1 week ago The gallery in Cairngorms National Park that's going on sale after 25 years of 'magical exhibitions'

This is an opportunity for a new life in the country

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Manchester United’s stadium plans: put the fans first | Editorial

A £2bn new arena for Britain’s biggest football club will bring regeneration to the surrounding area. But matchgoing supporters are right to be circumspectVisitors to Salford’s Lowry art gallery this summer will be able to enjoy a new take on one of the greatest paintings about sport. Depicting thousands of supporters bent purposefully towards a 1950s football stadium, LS Lowry’s Going to the Match has become part of the iconography of the national game. As part of its silver jubilee celebrations, the gallery is staging an immersive experience of the painting, including a nostalgic soundtrack evoking the sounds of a lost world.So much for the past. Barely a mile away from the Lowry, at Manchester United’s Old Trafford base, it is the ghosts of football’s future that are being summoned up. To great fanfare, this month the club unveiled computer-generated images of Lowryesque hordes approaching the new £2bn stadium it hopes to build by 2030. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Edvard Munch at the National Portrait Gallery: studies in love and revenge

Munch’s little seen portraits prove to be remarkable odes to the people who influenced him, as well as wicked takedowns

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3 w. ago ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light

He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a heroIn 2019, the National Gallery held an exhibition of Paul Gauguin’s portraits that provoked uproar. Was Gauguin not a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls throughout the islands of the South Seas? The London show was caught in the crosshairs of cancel culture and there were calls for his paintings to be burned.I have always loved Gauguin’s pictures. Having just written I Am Dynamite!, a biography of controversial philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and feeling a strong sympathy with #MeToo, I couldn’t live in the dishonest and hypocritical position of loving the paintings and hating the man. I embarked on research. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Edvard Munch Portraits review – in search of the master of jealousy, neurosis and despair

National Portrait Gallery, LondonStrindberg and his psychic double and the fierce sister of Nietzsche are among the stars in this show devoted to the Norwegian painter’s tremendous portraits – yet the omissions are glaringIn the autumn of 1908, Edvard Munch admitted himself to Dr Daniel Jacobson’s private clinic in Copenhagen to be treated for acute alcohol-induced psychosis. Over the next eight months, Jacobson helped him give up nicotine as well as drink. Of the stream of images Munch painted in the clinic – never paralysed by any setback – one is a towering portrait of the doctor that appears about halfway through this new show.Jacobson stands tall, feet widely planted, hands on hips in his three-piece suit. His face is all sharp-eyed intelligence, equal to any crisis. The sitter thought the picture loopy, perhaps because of all the pulsating energy that radiates around him in swift strokes to rival his vigour. But a photograph of the two men, the painting between them, shows it ...

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3 w. ago Where the art of Edvard Munch comes alive: a city break in Oslo

As a new exhibition celebrating the portraits of Edvard Munch opens at London’s National Portrait Gallery, we take a trip to the artist’s home city in NorwayI reach Ekeberg Park at sunset and walk along the muddy paths to find the viewpoint. The late winter sky is like a watercolour: soft blue and grey clouds layer together, with a sweeping gradient of yellow verging from tobacco stain to pale lemon above the distant, bruise-coloured hills. At the viewpoint, I look out over Oslo and listen for a scream.In 1892, Edvard Munch took a walk in this same park as the sun was setting. Recording the experience in his diary, he wrote that he heard “a great and infinite scream through nature”. The experience became the basis of his most enduring painting. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Greek lawmaker attacks paintings in Athens' National Gallery, claiming they are offensive

Greece’s National Gallery says a Greek lawmaker attacked four paintings in an exhibition, including one he had previously criticized as offensive on religious grounds

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4 w. ago Splendour of Siena: a spectacular show at the National Gallery in London

Splendour of Siena: a spectacular show at the National Gallery in London  Catholic Herald

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