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London. Art needs architecture, and masterpieces need museums. Since the National Gallery’s Wilkins Building, named after its architect, William Wilkins, opened in 1838, its Georgian frontage ...
On 10 May the National Gallery in London is to unveil the first full rehang of its collection since the opening of ... Rembrandt and Claude Monet. Georges Seurat’s newly conserved Bathers at ...
Courtesy the National Gallery, London ... (1899), Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait (1434), Georges Seurat’s ... Shell had been a keen sponsor of the National Gallery since ...
Indeed, living artists have played a central role in the National Gallery’s mission from the beginning. For some 30 years between 1838 and 1869, the eastern half of Wilkins’s National Gallery ...
Activists have attacked artwork at the National Gallery in London five times, the gallery said. Just Stop Oil said the threat from climate change was much more serious. October 18, 2024 ...
From October 18 onwards, the National Gallery in London is prohibiting liquids and big bags on its premises in a bid to step up security measures amid ongoing protests targeting its masterpieces ...
A billionaire lover of fine art, he and his brothers had in 1985 pledged to fund a major extension of London's National Gallery. (The cost was undisclosed, but reportedly in the tens of millions ...