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Buckets for rain drops in same gallery as Blue Poles embarrassing: PM

What is the point of having Blue Poles if you've got holes in the roof, Anthony Albanese asked.

The Canberra Times

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden review – the scissors I get, but what’s with the frog?

Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itself

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden at the National Gallery review: a superb, irreverent show

The artist creates a world rooted in the here and now but propels viewers into the realms of the imagination

Evening Standard

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Fabritius, my father and me: how art has shaped my life

In an extract from her new memoir, the Observer art critic tells the story of two paintings: one a source of comfort during a doomed affair, the other an unforgettable vision created by her father

The Guardian - UK

Famous John Constable painting goes on display in Jarrow with free viewing until the end of the week

South Tyneside residents are encouraged to make the most of a chance to see 1826 masterpiece The Cornfield

Chronicle Live

Lord Rothschild: ‘I loaned Lucian Freud £1,000 so the Krays wouldn’t cut his hand off’

As a vast wedding cake sculpture is unveiled on the lawn at his stately home Waddesdon Manor, Lord Rothschild, scion of the banking dynasty, talks art, gangsters, champagne magnums and giant teapots with Geordie Greig

The Independent UK

'Not quite human': How AI features in the latest National Gallery exhibition

An AI-created monologue discusses the 'absurd human urge' to name typhoons and cyclones.

The Canberra Times

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Painted Love – on the marriage market in Renaissance Europe

Although these portraits were something like dating profiles for aristocrats to woo across countries, staring back across the centuries they have an enigmatic privacy

The Guardian - UK

How a 'brain fart' became Skywhale: Archer returns to Canberra

The legendary cabaret star reflects on her many good times in Canberra.

The Canberra Times

Saint Francis of Assisi review – a saint for all seasons

Cheerful, selfless Saint Francis is forcefully present in this enthralling show of art and imagery from the Renaissance to the present inspired by the muse, mystic and social radical

The Guardian - UK

Saint Francis of Assisi review – did you know the bird-loving roamer was a Marvel superhero?

From Caravaggio’s most explicitly gay painting to the action-packed pages of a superhero comic, this exhibition of art inspired by the roving radical is enrapturing

The Guardian - UK

NGA to stop promoting Indigenous exhibit after fraud allegations

The review will assess if Indigenous artists had "creative control" over the paintings.

The Canberra Times

Saint Francis of Assisi: who was the man behind the National Gallery’s new blockbuster exhibition?

Evening Standard

Arts Centre Collective denies accusation of interfering

The APY Art Centre Collective has denied accusations arts workers have overstepped their bounds in assisting artists for an upcoming National Gallery show.

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Authorship of APY Lands artwork subject to independent review ahead of national exhibition

The National Gallery of Australia has launched an independent review into the origins of the First Nations artwork in its Ngura Pulka – Epic Country exhibition after questions were raised about the role of non-Indigenous studio assistants in the creation of the art.

The New Daily

Federal budget to boost funds for cultural institutions

Nine key cultural institutions, including Old Parliament House and the National Gallery of Australia, will receive more than half a billion dollars in funding.

Evening Standard

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at the National Gallery review: an artistic explosion

This was a time when art really was everything everywhere all at once

The Guardian - UK

After Impressionism review – radical ideas and ecstatic sex from the edge of a new universe

Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards

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The Guardian - UK

Mona Lisa v ‘the monstrous’: the grotesque, shocking side of Leonardo da Vinci

The Italian master didn’t just paint the conventionally beautiful. As a new National Gallery show reveals, he was also drawn to irregular, diseased and aged faces – all captured with mind-bending accuracy and compassion

Evening Standard

The Ugly Duchess at the National Gallery review: gives this memorable lady the last laugh

This tiny exhibition – just five paintings, with some magnificent drawings – makes a point about Renaissance humour, which could be cruel to age and ugliness.

The Independent UK

‘She is most likely a he’: New art exhibition challenges gender of 16th-century Massys painting ‘An Old Woman’

Also known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’, Massys’ painting has historically been considered a depiction of a woman with a bone disease

The Guardian - UK

‘She is a he’: Was An Old Woman, the painting that inspired Alice’s Duchess, actually a man?

Curator of Renaissance art exhibition claims grotesque sitter for portrait didn’t have a disfiguring disease, as was previously thought

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