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Art for the Nation: Sir Charles Eastlake at the National Gallery - review

11.08.11
A small exhibition devoted to the National Gallery's first director, Charles Eastlake, should reveal more than it does of his influence on the paintings in London's Louvre... more

Art and ballet join forces for a 2012 celebration

11.04.11
Royal Ballet and the National Gallery are to join forces on an Olympics project which will bring together top British artists and dancers ... more

Jan Gossaert and the one that got away

03.03.11
If the National Gallery's new show promises to reassess the Flemish Gossaert in the light of the Renaissance, it should have included his almost lifesize, near-pornographic Neptune and Amphitrite... more

Nine-month unpaid internships at museums are exploitation, say MPs

23.02.11
London's leading museums and art galleries accused of exploiting interns who work for no pay for up to nine months at a time ... more

Google goes off the street for 360-degree gallery tours in stunning detail

01.02.11
Google's Street View technology has been taken indoors for the first time - into some of the world's most famous art galleries... more

National Gallery shows forgotten painter's tribute to human spirit

13.07.10
Paintings that hung for decades in a former London hospital are the centrepiece of a new exhibition profiling the forgotten British artist who produced them... more

Do my eyes deceive me at the National Gallery?

01.07.10
The scientific techniques used to tell a genuine painting from a dud are the focus of a new show that only goes to prove that polarised light microscopy and x-rays are no substitute for old-fashioned expertise... more

National Gallery makes an exhibition of mistakes

29.06.10
An entire exhibition is being devoted to showing how science has uncovered dozens of fakes, forgeries and wrongly attributed works... more

Delaroche paints plain Jane

18.03.10
Delaroche’s hilarious depictions of doomed ladies and insulted kings only serve to show why history painting fell out of fashion. ... more

Gallery revives masterpiece lost in the Blitz

24.11.09
Giant masterpiece that was damaged in the Blitz has been rediscovered after nearly 70 years and is to go on show at the National Gallery... more

Truth about the sex trade from Edward Kienholz

19.11.09
Edward Kienholz is the forgotten father of installation art - and his evocation of the red light district of Amsterdam captures the truth about the sex trade... more

Creator of red-light art show blasts the law on prostitution

12.11.09
Artist behind a re-creation of Amsterdam's red-light district in the National Gallery condemns the criminalisation of prostitutes... more

The agony and ecstasy of The Sacred Made Real

22.10.09
The suffering expressed in the extraordinary sculptures and paintings of martyred saints from 17th-century Spain is so real, the effect is almost unbearable... more

National Gallery announces exhibition of forged paintings

21.07.09
Exhibition of forged and wrongly-attributed paintings is to be at the heart of the National Gallery's next summer season... more

National launches eGallery for Old Masters

21.07.09
National Gallery becomes first major art collection to allow internet users to zoom electronically into any picture in its archive... more

Pointless pleasures from Corot to Monet

16.07.09
Never mind the gaps in the National Gallery’s survey of landscape, the joy is in the wonderfully impetuous sketches.... more

Triumph of love and tax: Titian left to the nation goes on show

23.06.09
A £1million painting by Titian given to the nation in lieu of death taxes will go on show at the National Gallery next month... more

Michelangelo’s earliest painting should have been saved

04.06.09
Michelangelo’s earliest painting may not be a great painting in any conventional sense but it is both a rare and extraordinary document. ... more

Unleash the dinosaur

26.05.09
Free entry for museums is a relic of the past that is robbing London's cultural institutions of revenue we cannot afford to lose in a recession... more

Heritage fund gives its entire grant to protect masterpiece

19.11.08
The campaign to save a Titian masterpiece has received a £10 million boost... more

Fruit and veg portrait leads show of Renaissance faces

07.10.08
This unusual 16th century portrait of a king is one of more than 70 masterpieces in a new exhibition at the National Gallery... more

Lesser known artists fail to draw crowds

01.09.08
Visitor numbers at the National Gallery have fallen since it started showing lesser-known artists, latest figures show... more

Where's the romance in Love?

13.08.08
Brian Sewell doubts if the sophisticated citizens of London will be flocking to the National Gallery's door for its Love exhibition.... more

Porn from the provinces

07.12.07
Discoveries at the National Gallery is a worthy project that aims to catalogue every publicly owned painting in Britain but it is populated by some surprisingly low-rent works.... more

Siena the sideshow

26.10.07
There is a story to be told about the most picturesque Renaissance city in Italy but it is hardly touched upon in the National Gallery's new exhibition.... more

Masters of renaissance

22.10.07
The National Gallery are to hold an exhibition of more than 100 pieces by Renaissance masters from 24 October.... more

Lunchtime talks at the National Gallery

03.09.07
Each month the National Gallery holds a series of lunchtime talks with a different theme for each day.... more

Double Dutch

02.07.07
The National Gallery's claims for its new exhibition of portraits from Holland's Golden Age are ludicrously inflated - yet still, there are sublime works to be seen... more

Now that's street art, Banksy

12.06.07
The National Gallery today challenged cult graffiti artist Banksy by taking its works on to the streets.... more


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