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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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