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Mining mogul demands NGA remove her portrait

The National Gallery of Australia has rebuffed demands from mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to remove a portrait of her from an exhibition.

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Treasures on tour, outsized orchids and liberated bottoms – the week in art

Monet’s masterpiece flees the National Gallery, Marc Quinn plants himself in Kew and the Tate honours female artists – all in your weekly dispatch

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Turner: Art, Industry and Nostalgia review – Fighting Temeraire sets Tyneside ablaze

How do you make Turner’s most famous painting cool? Take it to Tyneside, where it’s end-of-an-era magnificence takes on a whole new ghostly meaning

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How to watch London's National Gallery being lit up for its 200th birthday

The dazzling event will feature narrations from gallery staff in eight-minute shows held over two hours.

Evening Standard

Insight! Sensitivity! Genius! Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery

It started from scratch – and became one of the world’s greatest collections. As the National Gallery celebrates its 200th birthday, we pick five sublime works – from a serene statesman to Van Gogh’s blazing blooms

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Canaletto masterpiece returns to Wales 80 years after it was hidden in slate mine

The Stonemason’s Yard, moved for safekeeping during WW2, is going on display at National Library of Wales

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Sketch celebrates 200 years of the National Gallery with a budding floral takeover

‘Sketch in Bloom’ is a floral takeover of the London restaurant to celebrate the National Gallery’s 200th birthday

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Climate activist who defaced Edgar Degas sculpture exhibit sentenced

A federal judge sentenced Joanna Smith to 60 days in prison for smearing paint on the case surrounding Edgar Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen at the National Gallery of Art.

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How the National Gallery's first Latinx art curator aims to open spaces for Latinos in the US cultural scene

Natalia Ángeles Vieyra's designation is part of the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums initiative

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The Last Caravaggio review – a gripping and murderously dark finale

Rage, slaughter, death, regret … The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, believed to be Caravaggio’s last work, is so astonishing, it deserves to be a one-painting blockbuster

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The Last Caravaggio: how a once-forgotten masterpiece became the National Gallery's latest coup

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula hasn’t travelled to London in more than 20 years – now visitors have the chance to see it in all its glory

Evening Standard

Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian altarpiece reassembled after 450 years

Eight known components of artwork were housed in five different museums in Europe and the US before being reunited in Milan

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Standard View: The appalling, chilling truth about the Metropolitan Police

By now, both the police and public may have grown accustomed to excoriating reports into the Met’s performance, culture and standards of behaviour. Yet the force’s failings still possess the power to shock.

Evening Standard

Picture is rosy for 200-year anniversary of National Gallery as visits hit 3million

The figures have been published as the gallery marks 200 years since its foundation on May 10 1824.

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Lord Jacob Rothschild Gave £66M Of His £825M Fortune To Jewish Charitable Causes

Lord Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild "will be buried in accordance with Jewish custom in a small family ceremony," his family announced.

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Sweet potato island and a black cat shortlisted for London’s fourth plinth

Public encouraged to comment on seven artists’ proposals for ephemeral pedestal in Trafalgar Square

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‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery

As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

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Hang on to National Gallery’s 1900 cut-off date

Letters: In response to a piece by Julian Spalding, Michael Newton argues that it makes sense to keep one London gallery for older paintings, while others show more recent work

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Sybil Williams obituary

Other lives: Head teacher of Colebrook school in Islington, north London, for nearly 30 years

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Even Canberra's sculptures are heading to the coast

A feature sculpture at the NGA is being loaned to the coast for five years.

The Guardian - UK

The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2024

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

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Warhol on Beuys, Pauline Boty’s swinging 60s and jugs in abundance – the week in art

Warhol captures his friend with icy darkness, Bruce McLean chooses pottery over provocation and a contemporary gem on the north Wales coast

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The $6.6m robotic sculpture that 'loses control' unveiled at NGA

Liken it to a film that cannot be judged before witnessing it.

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Pesellino review – a lost star of the Florentine Renaissance shines again

National Gallery, LondonFrancesco Pesellino died young and this show only fills a single room. But it’s a room bursting with life, where bold, radical colours bloom in narrative scenes crammed with activity

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Art of the body and heart exposed at National Gallery

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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