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Churchill’s desk and rare artwork among items donated to UK cultural institutions

Items worth £59.7m allocated to museums, galleries, libraries and archives as part of Arts Council England scheme

The Guardian - UK

Exploring the home town of the artist Joseph Wright of Derby

With a new exhibition of his work at the National Gallery in London, a visit to the artist’s home town reveals the landscapes and industry that inspired him

The Guardian - UK

Was it life or death in Joseph Wright’s 1768 painting?

Letters: Harriet Monkhouse responds to a review of the National Gallery exhibition that includes An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

The Guardian - UK

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Wright of Derby: From the Shadows review – science, skeletons and a suffocated cockatoo

Joseph Wright of Derby’s vivid paintings depicted Enlightenment thinking and illumination amid the dark. So why are they so terrifying?

The Guardian - UK

Why Dublin is the surprising city to delve into Picasso’s troubling relationship with women

TRAVEL IN FOCUS: Not focusing just on Picasso, but also highlighting the importance of the other people around him, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, in partnership with the Musée Picasso in Paris, promises a new perspective on the troubled artist, writes Michael Hodges

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Repatriation or political theatre? How the return of stolen artefacts can distort history

In late July, during a visit to the National Gallery of Australia, three Buddhist bodhisattva statues caught my attention.

The Conversation

Have the Tate galleries lost their way? There’s no accounting for taste

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Jones’s view that the chain of galleries is losing its identity as more dynamic rivals flourish

The Guardian - UK

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Art lovers rejoice: the National Gallery can finally show us when painting really gets exciting

Curators can now chart the seismic shifts in 20th-century art – and include more works by women and artists of colour, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate?

The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art

The Guardian - UK

The dotty genius of Seurat and a song and dance about Picasso – the week in art

Tate Modern reframes its Picassos in a theatrical light, there’s a hands-on utopia in Gateshead, and the Cerne chalk giant gets a colourful new neighbour

The Guardian - UK

Radical Harmony at the National Gallery: 'you can have just too many dots'

4/5 Radical Harmony looks at collector Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists, in an interesting homage... but there’s no escaping the dots

Evening Standard

OPINION - Museums are about who we are and who we aspire to be

We've just come out of the bicentenary year of the National Gallery, crossing the threshold into our third century, and we've been thinking a lot about the future. In part, this lies in developing a building a called St Vincent House at the back of the gallery, which was acquired…

Evening Standard

National Gallery accused of risking ‘bad blood’ with Tate over 20th-century art

Sources say decision to collect ‘modern’ art could have two galleries ‘at each others’ throats’ – but others welcome move

The Guardian - UK

Radical Harmony review – Seurat’s shimmering visions trounce his spotty dotty imitators

The tradition of neo-impressionism begun by Georges Seurat was radical, even revolutionary, but this po-faced showcase is sadly lacking its joyful dazzle

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The Conversation

Why the National Gallery is creating a public panel to help shape its future

What do you expect to see when visiting the National Gallery in London? A neatly curated collection of landscape painting? Or a selection of the gallery’s must-see highlights – a veritable who’s-who of art history?

The Guardian - UK

Locatelli at the National Gallery, London: ‘Come for the Michelangelo, stay for the orecchiette’ – restaurant review

Someone is actually cooking here – it’s not just for tourists

The Guardian - UK

Humble peasants … or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinations

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38 Famous And Culturally Significant Paintings That Are Kept In The Most Surprising Places

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What if every artwork you’ve ever seen is a fake?

I was shocked to learn just how many pieces of art sold around the world are forgeries. But should finding out something is a cheap dupe really make us enjoy it less?

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London's Most Famous Italian Chef Has Set Up Shop Inside the National Gallery — And the Food Is So Good It Competes With the Art

We spent a lunch break at Locatelli, the freshly unveiled restaurant by Michelin-starred culinary powerhouse Giorgio Locatelli, and asked him about the inspirations behind his latest venture

The Guardian - UK

Research confirms that Samson and Delilah is a Rubens

Letter: The National Gallery has published detailed research into Samson and Delilah, writes Gabriele Finaldi

The Guardian - UK

That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

How can anyone call Rubens’ sumptuous masterpiece Samson and Delilah a ‘fake’ and ‘a shoddy artefact’? The Flemish master is simply doing a superb job of copying his own favourite outlaw artist

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Suspect in murders of Minnesota lawmakers caught and charged

Vance Boelter accused of killing Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounding John Hoffman and his wife. Plus, why a professor of fascism left the US

The Guardian - UK

A £2.5m dud? Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of National Gallery Rubens

Former curator’s comments, later withdrawn, reignite debate over attribution of Samson and Delilah painting

The Conversation

The National Gallery at 200: is this rehang a bold relaunch or rinse and repeat?

The National Gallery has recently rehung its entire collection. Taking hundreds of paintings off the wall and replacing them in a new arrangement requires considerable mental and physical labour on the part of curators, conservators and technicians.

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