EXPLAINED: 11 | Vintage Vibes

The best exhibitions in London this winter, from Chanel to Marina Abramović

It’s a fabulous season for art lovers...

Evening Standard · Jan 5, 2023

The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

The Guardian - UK · Dec 27, 2022

‘Almost as botched as Monkey Christ!’ Has the National Gallery ruined a Nativity masterpiece?

The restoration of this treasure took three years. So why do the shepherds look so gormless? Is the curly-haired one at a school disco – and is the other trying to remember where he parked the donkey?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2022

Climate protesters told to pay National Gallery £1,000 for damaging painting

Just Stop Oil’s Hannah Hunt and Eden Lazarus found guilty after glueing themselves to Constable’s The Hay Wain

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2022

Climate protesters convicted of causing criminal damage to The Hay Wain

Two climate protesters who inflicted more than £1,000 worth of damage to John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain must compensate the National Gallery.

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

Climate protesters found guilty of causing criminal damage to The Hay Wain

Hannah Hunt and Eben Lazarus taped posters of a ‘dystopian version’ of the artwork on to John Constable’s painting and glued their hands to the frame.

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

National Gallery makes plea for art as Ukraine war scuppers exhibition

The National Gallery has felt the pinch of the war in Ukraine. It had planned an exhibition on modern art with the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for next year, but the plans were scrapped soon after Russia’s invasion, leaving the museum rushing to find 15 paintings that could replace the…

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2022

‘Like a clown in a tutu’: London’s National Gallery architect steps into row over revamp plan

The Sainsbury Wing’s co-designer Denise Scott Brown says plans to remodel her award-winning entrance are tragically bad. Here, she explains why

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022

Brueghel’s Cambridge carnival and modernism’s female pioneers – the week in art

Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, the Royal Academy heads back a century and Kettle’s Yard teams up with the Fitzwilliam – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022

Warhol work sprayed in climate protest

The National Gallery of Australia says a prized work by Andy Warhol wasn't damaged when climate activists used "art disruption tactics" at the Canberra venue.

AAP · Nov 9, 2022