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The animations are based on an idiosyncratic selection from famous paintings in the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum.

The novelist and comedy writer on her song of the summer, her new favourite sitcom and the brilliance of director Lynette Linton

David Emanuel says Diana would not put up with royal squabble / Bimini Bon Boulash bashes the Kim Kardashian effect / Sienna Miller steals the show at National Gallery

The art gallery was founded in 1824 and houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings.

Born in controversy, the National Gallery wing was a lesson in throwing away the architects’ rulebook. Now plans to remodel it threaten its quirky splendour

The National Gallery recently announced its summer 2023 exhibition, After Impressionism, claiming the show will celebrate the “towering achievements of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaugin and Rodin” among others. The response on social media to this announcement was largely, “where are the women?”

A portrait of the Dutch master’s first wife is leaving visitors to a tiny Welsh gallery in Newtown starstruck, as part of the National Gallery’s Masterpiece Tours

Helen Smout, chief executive of Culture Perth and Kinross, reckons getting the nod from organisers shows off the region’s prominence as a hub for arts, culture, creativity and tourism

The ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making and the striking installation in the foyer is a statement of intent

Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego, who created bold, visceral works inspired by fairy tales and her own life, has died at the age of 87

I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways of Seeing, in 1972. In the years before Australia had colour television BBC art programs were often screened at the Art Gallery of NSW. (Previously the same venue had shown Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation).