22 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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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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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 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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