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Bureaucratic delays tied up return of ‘Liberator’ painting

The Royal Bank of Scotland tried to give Ireland the portrait for two years.

The Independent UK

‘They wouldn’t do this to Shakespeare’: the pioneers of postmodern architecture, as seen by their son

Jim Venturi’s new film follows his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, bringing scrappy wit and colour to chilly modernism as they battle the establishment and wind-up traditionalists at the National Gallery

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Rachel Johnson: what the fears of my hairdresser tell us about Rachel Reeves's total disaster of a Budget

Yesterday afternoon, I walked to Hair EQ up in Notting Hill Gate, where Tareq has tamed the mane for many years, for a blow-dry before an event at the National Gallery then another thing ie the launch of the Friends of Afghan Women Network (FAWN) in the House of Commons,…

Evening Standard

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OPINION - The National Gallery's new liquid rules make me want to kick a polar bear — well done eco-activists

A trip to the National Gallery may start to resemble a journey through Heathrow, thanks to the vandalism of environmental activists. The Gallery announced yesterday that visitors will now not be allowed to bring liquids into the building, which means taking the existing checks on bags to a new level.…

Evening Standard

National Gallery in London bans liquids after activists’ art attacks

Only baby formula, expressed milk and prescription medicines will be allowed with large bags also prohibited under new measures

The Guardian - UK

Picasso’s ‘Motherhood’ covered with picture of Palestinian mother and child in Gaza protest

Activists from Youth Demand were protesting British arms sales to Israel

The Independent UK

Protesters paste image of Palestinian mother and child over Picasso painting

PROTESTERS have pasted a photograph of a Palestinian mother and child over a Picasso painting at the National Gallery in London, as they called for…

The National (Scotland)

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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery review – a wonderful show of a wonderful artist

This is a chance to see the best works from the last years of the great artist’s life

Evening Standard

Monstrous carbuncles to talking columns: the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing is still a controversy magnet

Prince Charles detested the plans for its extension. Now its major donor has criticised it from beyond the grave. So what’s coming next? Something that looks a lot like an airport lounge …

The Guardian - UK

Our wonderful aged care workers recognised for their hard work

They will be celebrated at an awards ceremony at the National Gallery in September

The Canberra Times

The National Gallery turns 200: director Gabriele Finaldi on London's 'beautiful, jewelled treasure chest'

‘For many Londoners, we feel the National Gallery is ours... It’s embedded in this history of this country and the history of London’

Evening Standard

The hottest show in town? Why Caravaggio needs crowd control at the National Gallery

What is it about the bad-boy old master that continues to pack out the gallery some 400 years after his death?

Evening Standard

The Last Caravaggio at the National Gallery review: the final self-revelation of a troubled, violent genius

This being Caravaggio this show of two works is all about theatre in light and dark

Evening Standard

Good news of the week: Olly Alexander's Eurovision entry and Barbie at the Design Museum

The good news of the week, from the UK’s Eurovision entry to a new Barbie exhibition

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OPINION - Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth sculpture is how to do London public art — and the latest selection proves it

Well, you can have a sweet potato, an ice cream van, an equestrian figure draped in green slime or a black cat. Seven models for the vacancies on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2026 and 2028 are on display in the National Gallery, and you can vote for…

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

OPINION - Just Stop Oil have attacked another painting and I can't bring myself to condemn it

I revere art as much as the next person but if I get more angry at the protesters than their cause I need to reevaluate

The Conversation

Just Stop Oil attack the Rokeby Venus: how the group is using the suffragettes' disruptive tactics to shape public opinion

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London. This, you might be surprised to hear, is not the first time this painting has been the target of activists.

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The Independent UK

National Gallery installation will bring voices of Trafalgar Square into gallery

The new installations include a 25-by-six metre textile sculpture.

Evening Standard

National Gallery finally reopens nearly 24 hours after man scales building

A man was reported to be standing on the roof of the gallery in a distressed condition, police say

The Guardian - UK

Searching high and low for unexpected art

Letters: Ian Skidmore responds to Katy Hessel’s article mentioning Boris Anrep’s mosaics at the National Gallery. Plus letters from Philip Rutnam and John Bailey

Evening Standard

Maya Jama, Celeste and Felicity Jones among stars at National Gallery’s dreamy summer party

Forget the Met Gala, have you ever heard of the Nat Gala? Here’s what went down at the National Gallery’s uber chic summer party

Irish Mirror

'Nike shoes' spotted in 400-year-old painting sparks time traveller debate

Portrait of a Boy by Ferdinand Bol hangs in the National Gallery in London and one detail has gotten people talking about time travel

Evening Standard

Artist Lindsey Mendick on the National Gallery show The Ugly Duchess: “I’m not sure how funny this satire is”

The rising star artist visits an exhibition that raises questions of just how much our attitudes to women have changed in the last 400 years

Evening Standard

My London: Pellicano Hotels CEO Marie-Louise Scio

Pellicano Hotels CEO Marie-Louise Scio picks up Wedgwood at Portobello Market, wells up at the National Gallery and laces up roller-skates at Flipper’s

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