Tag: National Gallery

  • Gainsborough’s Blue Boy

    An icon of British art returns to London exactly a century after its much-mourned departure for the US with the words “Au revoir” hand-written on its back by the then director of the National Gallery

  • Sin

    A compact, but rich exhibition at the National Gallery finds moral transgression at the core of western art history

  • Artemisia

    Long-known for her autobiography, visceral and violent, yet strongly feminine portrayals of Apocryphal heroines, and her self-portraits in the guises of various martyrs, the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi is finally being celebrated for her full four-decade career as a…

  • Nalini Malani – interview: ‘The future is female. There is no other way’

    Malani won the Joan Miró Prize last year and the resulting exhibition, You Don’t Hear Me, is now on in Barcelona. She has also just been awarded the first National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship. She explains why telling and retelling stories,…

  • Young Bomberg and the Old Masters

    This disappointingly limited exhibition does little to uphold the promised insight into the influence of the old masters on Bomberg’s work

  • Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece

    This  immersive exhibition, which hopes to persuade viewers to look in depth at Leonardo’s The Virgin of the Rocks, provides insight into the artist’s technique and the story behind the painting

  • Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance

    A display of paintings by Spanish Renaissance painter Bartolomé Bermejo forms a picture of religious upheaval and artistic excellence

  • Lorenzo Lotto: Portraits

    Lorenzo Lotto was a painter of emotions as well as likenesses. With every portrait, he reached beyond convention to get to the heart of his sitters

  • Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art

    This exhibition includes some beautiful and touching examples of artistic hero worship, but the underlying concept is a strained addition to the misleading story of the origin of modern art

  • Frederick Wiseman: ‘National Gallery shows more about the ambivalence, depth and horror of human nature than almost any other film’

    The American film-maker Frederick Wiseman talks about his latest documentary, a portrait of the National Gallery, and his novelistic approach to his work