DARK SECRETS: 5 | Vintage Vibes

Did you know there was an Instagram filter craze as early as the 1800s?

The UK's National Gallery has revealed that something called a ‘Claude Glass’ was very popular 200 years ago

Digital Camera World · Feb 17, 2025

Exploring Siena, Tuscany’s other artistic masterpiece

A major new exhibition at the National Gallery puts the spotlight on the Tuscan town’s artistic heritage. But nothing beats exploring its historic neighbourhoods on foot

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2025

Starry nights and magic mushrooms: pulling an all-nighter at London’s Van Gogh exhibition

As the National Gallery’s sell-out Poets and Lovers draws to a close, the Observer joins the crowd in the early hours of the morning

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2025

Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2024

Black art moved centre stage, sculpture couldn’t keep still, Francis Alÿs captured the power of child’s play – but the year belonged to Van Gogh

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2024

The week in art: Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures; Katrina Palmer: The Touch Report – review

The Canadian artist’s carefully staged photographs provoke fascination and unease. And it’s all words, no art, in Room 17a of the National Gallery

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024

Parmigianino: The Vision of St Jerome review – a wild religious masterpiece reborn

The genitals of the dreaming hermit Jerome are thrust into our eyeline in a quirky painting that gets more subversive the longer you look at it

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2024

George Stubbs dog painting expected to reach up to £2m at auction

The Spanish Pointer has not been seen by the public since 1972, when it sold for £30,000

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2024

Can Big Tech ever truly "get" Art?

Google Arts & Culture has been digitising the world’s top collections for years. Now, it’s trying to turn them into a game.

Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

This new M&S Home collection inspired by the National Gallery is a masterpiece in floral styling

The captivating new collection is influenced by some of the greatest paintings in the world

Woman & Home · Oct 28, 2024

National Gallery of Australia’s $14m behemoth artwork unveiled – and it’s a showstopper

Lindy Lee’s 13-tonne sculpture, Ouroboros, the most expensive work in NGA history, is in place after three years of anticipation – and questions about cost

The Guardian - AU · Oct 24, 2024