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19 Famous Paintings So Strange They Could Have Come From A Nightmare, As Shared By These Pages

Artists have been exploiting that fascination for centuries. Monsters, distorted bodies, hybrid creatures, impossible landscapes, and grotesque faces turn invisible fears - temptation, violence, the unknown, even our own irrationality - into something we can actually look at. That may be why the most disturbing paintings are often so difficult…

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Billionaire Mitchell Rales gave the US National Gallery of Art $116 million. The money will help bring its masterpieces to museums across all 50 states

A monumental donation from a billionaire will provide enduring financial support for the National Gallery’s initiative, which focuses on distributing artworks to regional museums nationwide. Over the next ten years, the program intends to make its way to all fifty states, offering long-term loans of artworks to participating museums at…

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They're having a lend: packing Blue Poles off exhibits Canberra distaste

If you're going to loan art, don't do the work a disservice.

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Volcanic raunch hits Edinburgh, blooms sweep Brussels and Henri does the can-can: the week in art

Edinburgh art festival erupts with Del LaGrace Volcano, Belgium lays down a marker for public art and Toulouse-Lautrec captures a dancer

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims

Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees

The Guardian - UK

Madonna, Legally Blonde and Ai Weiwei: What to see, do or hear this week in Europe

A pinker than pink Elle Woods prequel, an Ai Weiwei exhibition, and a new Madonna album - here's what to look out for this week.

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Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record

Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux tapestry

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A mind-bending Spaniard, an imagistic Puerto Rican and a lush Latvian – the week in art

A revelatory Zurbarán show proves him the equal of Goya and Picasso, Angel Otero takes up a Somerset residency and Daiga Grantina brings nature to abstraction – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Simply divine: the extraordinary supernatural visions of Francisco de Zurbarán

He painted sea battles, the labours of Hercules and breathtaking still lifes. But, as a major new exhibition makes clear, it was in his thrilling depictions of the spiritual that the Spanish master showed his true genius

The Guardian - UK

The National Gallery’s £750m new wing has reignited London’s art turf war

“When should painters become old masters?” Former National Gallery director Philip Hendy put that question to then Tate director John Rothenstein almost 70 years ago. Founded in 1897 as the National Gallery’s annexe for British Art, by the 1950s Tate had developed into a gallery of modern as well as…

The Conversation

‘An open letter to the nation’: National Gallery of Art reckons with America at 250

An exhibition of almost 100 artists, from Gordon Parks to Roy Lichtenstein, positions the US as ‘a living idea that’s shaped by many voices’

The Guardian - US

OPINION - The National Gallery’s new wing is bland, but the modern art going in it is the problem

For the National Gallery to expand its remit to include 21st-century art (hello, Tracey Emin) is something else

Evening Standard

National Gallery picks Tokyo Olympic stadium architect to design new wing

London gallery to undergo biggest transformation in its 200-year history, with Kengo Kuma’s design called ‘exemplary’

The Guardian - UK

Hockney scrolls through Bayeux, Brideshead gets revisited and Stubbs leads the field – the week in art

A spectacular record of a year in Normandy, the photogenic buildings of Sir John Vanbrugh and extraordinary paintings of horses

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The Guardian view on the funding crisis at the National Gallery: the public should not pay the price

Editorial: Financial difficulties at one of the UK’s most prestigious institutions are a sign of the times. But maintaining free access to great art must be a priority

The Conversation

What the National Gallery staff cuts reveal about the state of arts funding

London’s National Gallery has launched a “voluntary exit” scheme for staff to address an £8.2 million deficit, with the possibility of redundancies to follow. The news bodes ill for cultural institutions and cuts, in contrast to the recent announcement of additional cultural funding from the UK government.

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery to make major cuts in effort to stem ballooning deficit

Move could mean fewer free exhibitions and paid-for shows and more expensive tickets

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I Leaned Into the “Grandma’s House” Look for My Farmhouse Living Room —and I’m Not Going Back

From floral prints to classic patterns and comforting textures, this is how to bring that familiar, collected farmhouse feeling into your space

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Dark depths with Emin, a homoerotic saint and punchy political posters – the week in art

Tracey gathers the melancholy giants, a lost London is remembered and collages celebrate Scots strugglers

The Guardian - UK

Exploring the home town of the artist Joseph Wright of Derby

With a new exhibition of his work at the National Gallery in London, a visit to the artist’s home town reveals the landscapes and industry that inspired him

The Guardian - UK

Luminous Enlightenment, dark genius and Soviet shades – the week in art

Joseph Wright of Derby’s shining innovation, Diane Arbus’s haunting portraits and an Uzbek angle on the end of the USSR

The Guardian - UK

Art lovers rejoice: the National Gallery can finally show us when painting really gets exciting

Curators can now chart the seismic shifts in 20th-century art – and include more works by women and artists of colour, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

The dotty genius of Seurat and a song and dance about Picasso – the week in art

Tate Modern reframes its Picassos in a theatrical light, there’s a hands-on utopia in Gateshead, and the Cerne chalk giant gets a colourful new neighbour

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery accused of risking ‘bad blood’ with Tate over 20th-century art

Sources say decision to collect ‘modern’ art could have two galleries ‘at each others’ throats’ – but others welcome move

The Independent UK

UK's National Gallery will use $500 million in donations for a new wing and expanded collection

Britain’s National Gallery has announced it will use almost half a billion dollars in donations to open a new wing that will allow it to expand its collection into modern art

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