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Julian Clary’s cultural Q&A: ‘I had to do a bedroom scene with Keith Harris and Orville’

The legendary performer reveals his cultural hits and misses and why his motto “Just say yes” isn’t always advisable

Evening Standard

Descendants of Algernon Marsden help save Tissot portrait of great grandfather

The Victorian painting by Jacques Joseph ‘James’ Tissot was valued at £2.4 million.

The Independent UK

Climate protesters told to pay National Gallery £1,000 for damaging painting

Just Stop Oil’s Hannah Hunt and Eden Lazarus found guilty after glueing themselves to Constable’s The Hay Wain

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Climate protesters convicted of causing criminal damage to The Hay Wain

Two climate protesters who inflicted more than £1,000 worth of damage to John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain must compensate the National Gallery.

The Independent UK

Climate protesters found guilty of causing criminal damage to The Hay Wain

Hannah Hunt and Eben Lazarus taped posters of a ‘dystopian version’ of the artwork on to John Constable’s painting and glued their hands to the frame.

The Independent UK

National Gallery makes plea for art as Ukraine war scuppers exhibition

The National Gallery has felt the pinch of the war in Ukraine. It had planned an exhibition on modern art with the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for next year, but the plans were scrapped soon after Russia’s invasion, leaving the museum rushing to find 15 paintings that could replace the…

Evening Standard

‘Like a clown in a tutu’: London’s National Gallery architect steps into row over revamp plan

The Sainsbury Wing’s co-designer Denise Scott Brown says plans to remodel her award-winning entrance are tragically bad. Here, she explains why

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Brueghel’s Cambridge carnival and modernism’s female pioneers – the week in art

Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, the Royal Academy heads back a century and Kettle’s Yard teams up with the Fitzwilliam – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Warhol work sprayed in climate protest

The National Gallery of Australia says a prized work by Andy Warhol wasn't damaged when climate activists used "art disruption tactics" at the Canberra venue.

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The National Gallery needs to rethink its plans to make an entrance

Remodelling the Sainsbury Wing on the lines of ‘an airport lounge’ is not a recipe for permanence

The Guardian - UK

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

Pair of Turner paintings go on display in Britain for the first time in over 100 years

The paintings from the mid 1820s feature in a special exhibition at London's National Gallery, which opens this week

Wales Online

Two Turner paintings set to return to Britain for the first time in a century

The paintings from the mid 1820s will feature in a special exhibition at the National Gallery this winter.

The Independent UK

Art world appalled by attacks on paintings

PARIS: Art world professionals have slammed recent attacks on famous paintings by climate protesters as "counterproductive" and dangerous acts of vandalism.

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Rodney Graham obituary

Artist whose complex photographic images and videos featured self-portraits and physical comedy

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Chiara Bersani: Seeking Unicorns review – moments of mythical presence

With delicate movements and precise details, the Italian performance artist evokes a magical creature against a backdrop of fantastical art

Evening Standard

Discover Manet and Eva Gonzalès at the National Gallery review: worth digging into

This small show is an excuse to gorge on fabulous paintings by brilliant, mostly female artists

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil protesters charged with criminal damage to Van Gogh painting

Two tins of tomato soup were thrown over Sunflowers work at London’s National Gallery

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'Hot would be much worse': How a priceless Van Gogh survived a tomato soup shower

Talk about a food fight. The latest weapon of choice among climate activists? Tomato soup.

Daily Mirror

Tom Watson and Arlene Foster among new peers with seat in House of Lords - see full list

In a list released on a day of chaos for the government, TUC General-Secretary Frances O'Grady and retired Tory MP Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, were appointed to the House of Lords

Reuters

UK climate change protesters throw soup at van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'

Climate change protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s painting "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery on Friday, causing minor damage to the frame.

The Canberra Times

See the National Gallery of Australia in a different light this week

The building is being illuminated to celebrate its 40th birthday.

The Guardian - UK

Lucian Freud: New Perspectives; Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – review

Lucian Freud’s dispassionate work speaks for itself in a liberating show without wall texts, while Marina Abramović pushes our critic to the brink

The Guardian - UK

From Flux Gourmet to Björk: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you’re after director Peter Strickland’s descent into the decadently weird or the Icelandic conjurer’s latest aural opus, our critics have you covered

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Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed

From the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernesss

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