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Sweet potato island and a black cat shortlisted for London’s fourth plinth

Public encouraged to comment on seven artists’ proposals for ephemeral pedestal in Trafalgar Square

The Guardian - UK

‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery

As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

The Guardian - UK

Hang on to National Gallery’s 1900 cut-off date

Letters: In response to a piece by Julian Spalding, Michael Newton argues that it makes sense to keep one London gallery for older paintings, while others show more recent work

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Sybil Williams obituary

Other lives: Head teacher of Colebrook school in Islington, north London, for nearly 30 years

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Even Canberra's sculptures are heading to the coast

A feature sculpture at the NGA is being loaned to the coast for five years.

The Canberra Times

The best art and architecture shows to visit in 2024

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

The Guardian - UK

Warhol on Beuys, Pauline Boty’s swinging 60s and jugs in abundance – the week in art

Warhol captures his friend with icy darkness, Bruce McLean chooses pottery over provocation and a contemporary gem on the north Wales coast

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The $6.6m robotic sculpture that 'loses control' unveiled at NGA

Liken it to a film that cannot be judged before witnessing it.

The Canberra Times

Pesellino review – a lost star of the Florentine Renaissance shines again

National Gallery, LondonFrancesco Pesellino died young and this show only fills a single room. But it’s a room bursting with life, where bold, radical colours bloom in narrative scenes crammed with activity

The Guardian - UK

Art of the body and heart exposed at National Gallery

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia looks at representations of the figure by female artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Liotard and The Lavergne Family Breakfast review – a delicate scene of the Enlightenment good life, torpedoed

These masterly portraits of a polite morning routine conjure the beauty of ordinary moments – until this seemingly civilised ritual is obliterated by its historical context

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil activists smash glass protecting National Gallery painting

TWO Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass covering a painting on display at the National Gallery in London.

The National (Scotland)

‘We never thought we’d have a Monet on our farm’: $174m artwork heads to regional Australian gallery

An impressionist masterpiece is being displayed in the Tweed Valley as the National Gallery shares its collection around the country

The Guardian - AU

Frans Hals at the National Gallery review: about time this master was brought back into the spotlight

He was once thought of as among the greatest of Dutch painters, and this exhibition proves his worth

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The one-stop button shop favoured by film scouts and fashion designers

Explore the history of the humble - and not so humble - button.

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Frans Hals review – a joyful Dutch master in the spotlight

Often overshadowed by his contemporary Rembrandt, the 17th-century Haarlem artist is revealed to be a genius of the telling portrait in this first showcase of his work in 30 years

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Frans Hals review – boring, lifeless portraits with flamboyant facial hair

Comprehensive collection of the 17th-century painter’s work aims to place him alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, but his technically brilliant paintings are weirdly soulless

The Hindu

The Last Supper at Fort St. George and its artist

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Mantegna: The Triumphs of Caesar – you can hear the trumpets and smell the elephant dung

The full glory of ancient Rome blazes once more in this grand, yet very human, exhibition of paintings on loan from the royal collection

The Week

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden a ‘triumphant vision of female experience’

When Paula Rego was asked to paint a mural for the dining room of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in 1990, it “seemed a thoughtless insult”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The artist, who died last year aged 87, was renowned for focusing on the kinds of people normally…

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery in London extends pay what you wish scheme for major shows

Visitors can pay £1 for special exhibitions, including Frans Hals showcase next month, amid cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden; Jean Cooke: Ungardening review – women at work

Designed to be seen across dining crowds at the National Gallery, Rego’s 90s mural, inspired by Crivelli’s 15th-century one, comes alive in the details. And Cooke’s candid self-portraits find respite in flowers

The Guardian - UK

Great art surrounds Londoners – if they bother to notice it

From kaleidoscopic mosaics to modernist masterpieces, let’s open our eyes to the art hidden in plain sight

The Canberra Times

Buckets for rain drops in same gallery as Blue Poles embarrassing: PM

What is the point of having Blue Poles if you've got holes in the roof, Anthony Albanese asked.

The Guardian - UK

Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden review – the scissors I get, but what’s with the frog?

Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itself

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