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Insight! Sensitivity! Genius! Our critic picks the top five masterpieces in the National Gallery

It started from scratch – and became one of the world’s greatest collections. As the National Gallery celebrates its 200th birthday, we pick five sublime works – from a serene statesman to Van Gogh’s blazing blooms

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Sketch celebrates 200 years of the National Gallery with a budding floral takeover

‘Sketch in Bloom’ is a floral takeover of the London restaurant to celebrate the National Gallery’s 200th birthday

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The hottest show in town? Why Caravaggio needs crowd control at the National Gallery

What is it about the bad-boy old master that continues to pack out the gallery some 400 years after his death?

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The Last Caravaggio at the National Gallery review: the final self-revelation of a troubled, violent genius

This being Caravaggio this show of two works is all about theatre in light and dark

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Gallery reveals $60m plans for 3ha of prime land in the parliamentary zone

Most have no idea how big the Sculpture Garden actually is.

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The Last Caravaggio: how a once-forgotten masterpiece became the National Gallery's latest coup

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula hasn’t travelled to London in more than 20 years – now visitors have the chance to see it in all its glory

Evening Standard

Play-Doh photos, Emin’s studio show and Munch-drunk love – the week in art

Plus 500 years worth of children land in Derbyshire and a baroque zealot flatters his King in oil paint – all in your weekly dispatch

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Picture is rosy for 200-year anniversary of National Gallery as visits hit 3million

The figures have been published as the gallery marks 200 years since its foundation on May 10 1824.

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Lord Jacob Rothschild Gave £66M Of His £825M Fortune To Jewish Charitable Causes

Lord Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild "will be buried in accordance with Jewish custom in a small family ceremony," his family announced.

International Business Times UK

National Gallery should scrap 1900 cut-off date, says art expert

Julian Spalding says work by artists such as David Hockney could hang alongside old masters in bicentenary year

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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

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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

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Volcanic prints, Mapplethorpe’s mates and Puerto Rico’s Palestinians – the week in art

The history of 500 years of print from Picasso to Emin, Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of his famous friends, and the Palestinian diaspora in Puerto Rico

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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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Georg Baselitz’s erotic prints and the world’s best photography portraits – the week in art

Plus, Peter Blake talks AI in art, a dynamic look for hospital architecture and a 450-year-old look at the birth of our galaxy

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Torres Strait artist brings Charm to National Gallery

Janet Fieldhouse is the first Torres Strait Islander artist to unveil a commission in the NGA's sculpture garden, and the process has been career-changing.

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Céline Condorelli: Pentimenti review – have a lie down in front of the cardinal

Works by the gallery’s artist in residence coexist with classic 17th-century paintings, as a soundtrack, an off-kilter rug and ceiling hangings invite us to reassess the space and our relation to it

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Watercolour slamdown, changing Chanel and Ofili’s Grenfell mural – the week in art

Turner and Bonington duke it out, a fashion icon gets a major show and Chris Ofili tackles the burning tower with swirling emotion

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Book now: 20 must-see exhibitions in the UK

The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 September 2023, Tate…

Evening Standard

The best exhibitions this week in London, from Donna Huddleston to Simnikiwe Buhlungu (September 9 to 16)

We pick the best art shows to enjoy this week

Evening Standard

National Gallery finally reopens nearly 24 hours after man scales building

A man was reported to be standing on the roof of the gallery in a distressed condition, police say

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…

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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

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Indigenous artists had 'creative control' over works, review finds

The 28 works had come under scrutiny over suggestions non-Aboriginal assistants helped paint them.

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

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