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13 days ago

Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo paired for the first time in blockbuster exhibition at the NGV

Two iconoclasts of contemporary fashion will show side by side in the first major Australian exhibition since the London designer’s death two years ago

Two era-defining avant garde fashion designers, …

26 days ago

That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

How can anyone call Rubens’ sumptuous masterpiece Samson and Delilah a ‘fake’ and ‘a shoddy artefact’? The Flemish master is simply doing a superb job of copying his own favourite outlaw artist

Samson…

34 days ago

‘It makes me sick!’ How the likes of the French impressionists went from ‘lunatics’ to luminaries

The National Gallery of Victoria’s new show, French Impressionism, celebrates the likes of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro, who painted in the face of public outrage

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44 days ago

The Jewish dealer who bought art hated by the Nazis – and created one of the greatest collections ever seen

A new National Gallery of Australia show draws on Heinz Berggruen’s collection to celebrate the spread of modernism around the world, despite the Nazis’ best efforts

When Heinz Berggruen left Germany …

60 days ago

My husband and son suffered strokes, 30 years apart. Shockingly little had changed

I was told my husband would never talk again, while physiotherapy was dismissed entirely. My son was failed in similar ways, but for the brilliance of some medical staff who refuse to believe a strok…

67 days ago

Royal fans are all saying the same thing about King Charles and Queen Camilla's Coronation portraits as they spot unusual detail

The King and Queen unveiled their official Coronation state portraits at the National Gallery in London, on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the historic event.

69 days ago

‘Tranquillising good taste’: can the National Gallery’s airy new entrance exorcise its demons?

When the Sainsbury Wing opened, it was called ‘vulgar pastiche’. Now, after an £85m revamp, it has become the famous gallery’s main entrance. But have its spiky complexities been tamed? And why all t…

King Charles and Queen Camilla pose with their official Coronation state portraits as artwork is unveiled at the National Gallery

The artwork, by Peter Kuhfeld and Paul S. Benney, was unveiled this morning to mark the second anniversary of the crowning of His Majesty at Westminster Abbey on May 6 2023.

85 days ago

3 months ago

Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots; José María Velasco: A View of Mexico – review

Serpentine South Gallery; National Gallery, London
The arte povera veteran’s passionate celebration of trees risks being eclipsed by the real ones that surround it. And a 19th-century Mexican polymat…

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