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To celebrate its bicentenary, London's National Gallery has purchased a curious altarpiece for $20 million that it was eyeing for decades. Titled The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and ...
Lord Sainsbury didn't like the design of the wing his family funded. He paid for it though, and slipped a 1990 letter into a pillar during construction. Construction workers found it 33 years later.
In the late 1980s, the Sainsbury brothers, operators of the U.K.’s second largest supermarket chain, bankrolled a project to build a new wing at London’s National Gallery.
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London's National Gallery has had a big makeover and is finally set to open to the public. Is it a hit or a miss? Here's our assessment.
LONDON — Two climate change protesters were arrested Monday after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery, police ...
The National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square. Its Sainsbury Wing is undergoing a renovation and is closed until 2025. Mike Kemp/In Pictures, via Getty Images ...
To mark its bicentenary, the National Gallery has embarked on a series of modernizations, as well as staging the “NG Stories: Making A National Gallery” exhibition, all under the NG200 banner.
“The Last Caravaggio,” a new exhibition at the National Gallery in London, pairs these final mythological paintings in a striking storytelling feat about physical death and psychic revelation ...
More than seven centuries of art are celebrated at the National Gallery, who have titled the redisplay of the Sainsbury Wing C C Land: The Wonder of Art. The Wonder of Art encourages visitors to ...