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MYSTERIOUS: The national gallery | Mind Blowing Facts

National Gallery moves to protect artwork from Trump’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix vibrations

The National Gallery sits in the middle of the 1.7-mile-long racecourse

The Independent 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

Treasure hunt: the secret marvels of London’s museums

It’s time to rediscover the treasures under our noses. Here are a few places to start

Evening Standard

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Archie winner's dementia 'love story' tours nationally

Archibald prize winner Richard Lewer's landmark project Steve tells the story of a family's struggle to come to terms with a dementia diagnosis.

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Denmark’s ‘Cold Hawaii’: the artfully cool surf zone on the Jutland coast

Surfers nicknamed it in the 90s, but this rugged coastline is becoming a hotspot for contemporary art lovers too

The Guardian - UK

The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age

While Britain boils in a heatwave, a new exhibition built around the much-reproduced canvas reminds us of the beauty of the natural world – and what we could lose

The Guardian - UK

Plymouth’s the Box wins 2026 Art Fund museum of the year award

‘Ambitious and welcoming’ venue that opened in 2020 praised for ‘reimagining what being a museum can mean’

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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

The Guardian - UK

Fighters, legends and beloved indie bands: What to see, do or hear this week in Europe

Marina Abramović marks her upcoming 80th birthday with a new exhibition in Venice, 2000's band Broken Social Scene return, and Mortal Kombat II brings arcade fun to the big screen. Here's what to look out for this week.

Euronews

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

V&A East Storehouse and Norwich Castle among finalists for museum of the year

National Gallery, the Box in Plymouth and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge also shortlisted for £120,000 Art Fund prize

The Guardian - UK

Nominees revealed for £120,000 Art Fund Museum Of The Year prize

The winning museum will be announced on June 25.

Evening Standard

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

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

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The Guardian - UK

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’

Digital Camera World

These astonishing American Civil War photos are 160 years old – but some of them feel surprisingly contemporary

The National Gallery of Art just acquired 35 images that remind us that tech changes, but the rules of good composition are eternal

The Guardian - UK

Natural History Museum tops UK attraction list with record visitors

London museum defies drop in numbers seen elsewhere, attributed to cost of living and fall in international tourists

The Guardian - UK

Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse review – this magnificent nag deserves a longer canter

Britain’s greatest painter of animal anatomy receives a tiny survey in a single room, while his masterpiece remains on show elsewhere in the building. Why, when he’s as good as Constable – and better than Blake?

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UK’s free museums are in trouble. Should tourists start paying?

IN FOCUS: Visitors to London’s galleries and museums can see some of the finest artworks in the world without paying a penny – but for how much longer? Annabel Nugent explores the fraught debate about who should foot the bill for keeping them free of charge

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

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin calls for donations from the wealthy to keep museums free for the public

Emin’s comments come after the National Gallery revealed an £8.2m deficit

The Guardian - UK

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 Guardian - UK

Is the UK’s golden era of free museum entry coming to an end?

The National Gallery’s latest financial woes have brought the possibility of charging visitors back into the frame

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.

Evening Standard

Charlotte Tilbury's My London: park strolls, towering heels and partying at Loulou's

The makeup supremo Dines at Dorian, dances around her kitchen table and scours Notting Hill for vintage finds

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