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June 2024

  • Michael Palin with JMW Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed in My National Gallery

    My National Gallery review – comforting celebration of the UK’s cherished art collection

    Museum staff and familiar faces discuss their favourite paintings as the National Gallery turns 200, in a film that offers personal stories over scholarly pronouncement

May 2024

  • A painting of Artemisia Gentileschi holding a torture wheel

    Artemisia in Birmingham; Jesse Jones: Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon; Dion Kitson: Rue Britannia review – reshaping art history

    The Ikon gallery’s dramatic display of the National’s Gentileschi, coupled with Jesse Jones’s terrific installation, sees the past anew, while a Dudley-born artist makes poetry with tragicomic memorials
  • Six hundred years of wonders … the five works chosen by Jonathan Jones.

    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
  • Oil on canvas painting of people working in a stone yard in 18th-century Venice. A large church towers in the background

    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

April 2024

  • Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott) wonders at Caravaggio’s masterpiece The Seven Acts of Mercy in the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples.

    Rule-breaker for the ages: why Caravaggio is our screen age’s art superstar

  • Hypnotic and cinematic … The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610, with a cameo by Caravaggio who is pictured behind Ursula.

    The Last Caravaggio review – a gripping and murderously dark finale

March 2024

  • Joannes Fijt, Study of a Dog.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Intense photographic visions, a journey to Rome and a dealer-turned-painter – the week in art

    A wealth of northern Renaissance drawings; photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman, and recognition for gallerist Betty Parsons – all in your weekly dispatch

February 2024

  • Jacob Rothschild

    Jacob Rothschild, financier and member of the banking family, dies at 87

    City grandee and hereditary peer co-founded a number of companies and was also involved in the arts
  • The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square

    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
  • Three people look at a painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

    National Gallery should scrap 1900 cut-off date, says art expert

    Julian Spalding says work by artists such as David Hockney could hang alongside old masters in bicentenary year

January 2024

  • models projected on to pillars at front of palace

    2024 travel planner: 12 of the best things to do and see in the UK this year

    Top attractions from cycling, canoeing and surfing to fashion, culture and art – plus an aerial adventure on top of the Principality Stadium

December 2023

  • ‘Almost psychedelic blues, reds and golds’ … The Pistoia Trinity altarpiece, c 1455-60, showing in Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed at the National Gallery.

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

    National Gallery, London
    Francesco 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

November 2023

  • The Lavergne Family Breakfast by Jean-Etienne Liotard.

    Liotard and The Lavergne Family Breakfast review – a delicate scene of the Enlightenment good life, torpedoed

  • Catherine Bennett

    In adopting suffragettes as role models, Just Stop Oil is painting itself into a corner

    Catherine Bennett

October 2023

  • The Lute Player (detail) by Frans Hals

    Frans Hals review – a joyful Dutch master in the spotlight

    Often overshadowed by his contemporary Rembrandt, the 17th-century Haarlem artist is revealed to be a genius of the telling portrait in this first showcase of his work in 30 years

September 2023

  • Frans Hals, The Laughing Cavalier, 1624, © Trustees of the Wallace Collection, London

    Frans Hals review – boring, lifeless portraits with flamboyant facial hair

    Comprehensive collection of the 17th-century painter’s work aims to place him alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, but his technically brilliant paintings are weirdly soulless
  • Becalmed … Céline Condorelli’s Pentimenti at the National Gallery, London.

    Céline Condorelli: Pentimenti review – have a lie down in front of the cardinal

    Works by the gallery’s artist in residence coexist with classic 17th-century paintings, as a soundtrack, an off-kilter rug and ceiling hangings invite us to reassess the space and our relation to it
  • a detail from The Triumphs of Caesar II: The Triumphal Carts.

    Mantegna: The Triumphs of Caesar – you can hear the trumpets and smell the elephant dung

    The full glory of ancient Rome blazes once more in this grand, yet very human, exhibition of paintings on loan from the royal collection

August 2023

  • The National Gallery

    National Gallery in London extends pay what you wish scheme for major shows

    Visitors can pay £1 for special exhibitions, including Frans Hals showcase next month, amid cost of living crisis

July 2023

  • Paula Rego Crivelli's Garden IV, 1990‑1 (detail)

    Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden; Jean Cooke: Ungardening review – women at work

    Designed to be seen across dining crowds at the National Gallery, Rego’s 90s mural, inspired by Crivelli’s 15th-century one, comes alive in the details. And Cooke’s candid self-portraits find respite in flowers
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