5 h. ago Queen Camilla visits The King's Gallery to support elephant charity founded by her late brother

The 77-year-old took to the famous London gallery, home to one of the world's largest art collections, to view the 'Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg'.

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56 h. ago Readers reply: Why are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery? Thierry Dupond, Charente-Maritime, FranceSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago Royal Academy visitors blame 'woke' art for plummeting attendance figures amid gallery redundancies

The visitor feedback forms, seen exclusively by the Mail on Sunday, reveal that a mob of angry members, known as 'Friends of the RA', are not returning due to the 'woke' art.

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3 d. ago ‘Maybe people see Edward Hopper, or a spaceship, or something else’: Martin James Burton’s best phone photo

The British photographer saw an echo of a famous painting when he shot three strangers in a Toronto galleryWhile in Toronto on a work shoot, Martin James Burton decided to take the opportunity to visit the Art Gallery of Ontario. The photojournalist, who is based in Lewes, East Sussex, England, had some lunch before heading in to see the art. While there he happened upon these three strangers. “The people in the picture are sitting waiting either for nothing to happen or for something to happen. There is a feeling of the surreal to it and an odd sense of anticipation,” Burton says. “The man with his head turned towards you draws you in, and the huge bright, blank screen is like a giant softbox lighting the subjects perfectly.”Burton remembers his excitement at taking the shot: he immediately knew that he had captured something unusual. He also saw a resemblance to the painting Nighthawks, by American artist Edward Hopper, which portrays four people...

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3 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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4 d. ago ‘Mystery of a masterpiece’: how Van Gogh’s postman portrait ‘disappeared’ from London’s Tate Gallery a century ago

‘Mystery of a masterpiece’: how Van Gogh’s postman portrait ‘disappeared’ from London’s Tate Gallery a century ago  Art Newspaper

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5 d. ago Teacher, 58, told pupil 'I'm in awe of your brain' in 'inappropriate' relationship

Joanna Broad-Reeder, 58, admitted to arranging and meeting up with her pupil, under 18, on multiple occasions including a trip to an art gallery, a cinema and a meal

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5 d. 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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9 d. 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 Queen Camilla's niece quits art gallery role alongside Princess Eugenie for 'challenging' position at Trinny London

New York-based Ayesha, the daughter of Camilla's late brother, Mark Shand, revealed that she is stepping away from her role of eight years to enter the beauty world, according to Hello.

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3 w. ago Visitors flock to Paris’s Pompidou Centre before it closes for renovations

Art lovers catch last glimpse of prestigious art collection before gallery shuts for five years for major revampTourists and French visitors alike filled Paris’s landmark Pompidou Centre at the weekend to catch a last glimpse of its prestigious art collection before it closes for five years for a major renovation.“Five years – it’s long!” exclaimed one guide, Elisa Hervelin, as people around her took photos of many of the museum’s permanent works, among them paintings by Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse and sculptures by Marcel Duchamp. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Mum of schoolboy bludgeoned to death with candlestick dreamt of violent attack before learning news

Alex Morgan – who studied at King Charles’ former boarding school in Moray – was brutally killed with a candle by art gallery owner Bennet von Vertes at a Swiss villa in 2014.

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3 w. ago My dad gave me the sex talk at 27. It was one of the best conversations of my life | Wing Kuang

Sex is still a taboo topic for my Chinese immigrant baby boomer parents, but i’ve discovered it’s never too late to have ‘the talk’Sitting in a cafe in Sydney recently, I heard a line that I would never have expected to hear from Dad, a dull, quiet, introverted Chinese man in his late 60s who can be quite conservative and stubborn, especially when it comes to dating.“When you hang out with boys and go on dates, don’t forget to use condoms to protect yourself.” Continue reading...

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