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Pioneering art collection returns to Zimbabwe after 70 years

A compelling art exhibit, “The Stars Are Bright,” has opened at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe of paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s by young Black students at Cyrene Mission School, the first to teach art to Black students in what was then white minority-ruled Rhodesia

The Independent UK

Exhibition featuring 40-metre animations to open at National Gallery next year

The animations are based on an idiosyncratic selection from famous paintings in the National Gallery and the Holburne Museum.

The Independent UK

On my radar: Bolu Babalola’s cultural highlights

The novelist and comedy writer on her song of the summer, her new favourite sitcom and the brilliance of director Lynette Linton

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Londoner’s Diary: ‘Princess Diana wouldn’t have tolerated Prince William and Harry’s tension’

David Emanuel says Diana would not put up with royal squabble / Bimini Bon Boulash bashes the Kim Kardashian effect / Sienna Miller steals the show at National Gallery

Evening Standard

National Gallery announces plans for year-long festival to celebrate bicentenary

The art gallery was founded in 1824 and houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings.

The Independent UK

The Sainsbury Wing redesign: spare us the art-world good taste

Born in controversy, the National Gallery wing was a lesson in throwing away the architects’ rulebook. Now plans to remodel it threaten its quirky splendour

The Guardian - UK

Galleries continue to erase women artists in their blockbuster exhibitions

The National Gallery recently announced its summer 2023 exhibition, After Impressionism, claiming the show will celebrate the “towering achievements of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaugin and Rodin” among others. The response on social media to this announcement was largely, “where are the women?”

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A Rembrandt goes to Wales: ‘It’s probably worth more than the whole town’

A portrait of the Dutch master’s first wife is leaving visitors to a tiny Welsh gallery in Newtown starstruck, as part of the National Gallery’s Masterpiece Tours

The Guardian - UK

Perth to be only city in Scotland to host major new summer exhibition from the National Gallery in London

Helen Smout, chief executive of Culture Perth and Kinross, reckons getting the nod from organisers shows off the region’s prominence as a hub for arts, culture, creativity and tourism

Daily Record

Oslo’s vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls

The ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making and the striking installation in the foyer is a statement of intent

The Guardian - UK

Renowned Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego dies at 87

Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego, who created bold, visceral works inspired by fairy tales and her own life, has died at the age of 87

The Independent UK

Ways of Seeing at 50: an icy blast of a book about male voyeurism, art, capitalism and so much more

I still remember the shock when I first saw John Berger’s television series, Ways of Seeing, in 1972. In the years before Australia had colour television BBC art programs were often screened at the Art Gallery of NSW. (Previously the same venue had shown Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation).

The Conversation

Picasso Ingres: Face to Face review – portraiture at its most radical

This first-time pairing of Picasso’s Woman With a Book and its inspiration, Ingres’s celebrated Madame Moitessier, underlines the uniqueness of each artist

The Guardian - UK

Picasso faces down his hero while Henry Moore gets stoned – the week in art

Picasso goes toe to toe with his unlikely hero Ingres, Moore’s primordial forms go on show in Somerset, and punk feminist Penny Goring lets rip

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Evening Standard

Picasso Ingres: Face to Face at the National Gallery review - a tiny but illuminating display of masterpieces

Great artists don’t borrow, they steal, brazenly

Evening Standard

The best free exhibitions in London right now – get your culture fix and keep your money for coffee

Want to have a fun day out but also save those pennies? These free London art exhibitions are the perfect solution

The Independent UK

National Gallery to explore legacy of Saint Francis of Assisi in new exhibition

The exhibition will showcase artwork from the 13th Century to the present day.

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National Gallery to bring together work from renowned artists for the first time

After Impressionism will go on display from March 25 next year.

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Daily Record

Endo Warriors continue fight to help West Lothian women with new film

The support group for women suffering from endometriosis is delighted their new short film is being shown at the National Gallery in Edinburgh

Chicago Sun-Times

Art Institute showcases Cezanne in museum’s first exhibit of Post-Impressionist icon in 70 years

The show, titled simply “Paul Cezanne,” will run through Sept. 5, with 80 paintings, 37 watercolors and drawings, four watercolor boxes and other painting paraphernalia, including loans from as far away as the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

The Conversation

Raphael: it's time we stopped dismissing Italy's great painter as style over substance

How bountiful and benign heaven sometimes shows itself in showering upon one single person the infinite riches of its treasures, and all those graces and rarest gifts that it is wont to distribute among many individuals, over a long space of time …

Asharq Al-Awsat

Review: Broadbent, Mirren Charm in Art Heist Pic 'The Duke'

If you’re gonna face a jury for a crime you’ve already confessed to — and even explained how you did it — you’d better have something going for you besides a “not guilty” plea. The real-life character of Britain’s Kempton Bunton, an amiable sexagenarian taxi driver who was acquitted of…

The Guardian - UK

Raphael review – the peerless artist in the round

Tranquil saints and sultry beauties populate an unmissable exhibition of the elusive Renaissance master’s work

The Guardian - UK

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 2 is ripe for a Ukrainian rebranding

Letters: Symphony No 2 is usually dubbed the ‘Little Russian’, but was once nicknamed the ‘Ukrainian symphony’, writes Edward Wilson. Plus Jeremy Muldowney on a young Polish artist’s national pride

The Guardian - UK

A once-in-a-lifetime look at Raphael plus Japanese creativity at Buckingham Palace – the week in art

A Raphael exhibition to convince sceptics, NY minimalist Rosemarie Castoro, spectacular colour from Sheila Hicks and Japanese art with a royal flavour – all in your weekly dispatch

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