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150 photos depict 185 years of the US mining industry in world-first historical exhibition

Beneath the Surface is the first ever exhibition to reveal the hidden relationship between how photographers, often working in demanding conditions, have documented US industrial resource extraction

Digital Camera World · May 22

‘An open letter to the nation’: National Gallery of Art reckons with America at 250

An exhibition of almost 100 artists, from Gordon Parks to Roy Lichtenstein, positions the US as ‘a living idea that’s shaped by many voices’

The Guardian - US · Apr 13

From Project Hail Mary to Saturday Night Live UK: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Scientist Ryan Gosling is alone in deep space – or is he? – and America’s famed topical satire is given a British angle

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21

Pierre Bonnard: the master of shimmering luminosity, who painted difficult paintings and yet made them lucid and accessible

Pierre Bonnard, unlike his older contemporary, Paul Gauguin, never visited Australia, yet Bonnard’s influence on Australian art is pervasive and profound.

The Conversation · Jun 8, 2023

Photos Show the Transformation of Great Britain

A new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art displays how the U.K. changed in the 1970s and '80s.

Reason · Feb 11, 2023

Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2022

A year of revelations spanned Arles to the African diaspora, an unsung 20th-century great, and still lifes that are anything but…

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2022

Museums spar over authenticity of painting ahead of major Vermeer show

Rijksmuseum to display Girl With a Flute at exhibition despite National Gallery of Art, Washington, saying it is an imitation

The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2022

Cezanne review – a mesmerising master of everyday mystery

Quivering apples, mountainscapes like haikus… this first major UK show in a generation lays bare the French artist’s daring

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022

Art researchers discover one of Dutch artist Vermeer's paintings is not actually his

A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by someone else.

WEKU · Oct 8, 2022

A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of liberation'

An old-fashioned steam calliope designed by luminaries in the worlds of art and jazz is on display at the National Sculpture Garden.

WEKU · May 19, 2022