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Top UK gallery head - "I wish we had more fakes"

Reuters Life! Online Report 203 days ago

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The head of the National Gallery in London, one of the world's leading collections of art, said on Tuesday he would welcome more fakes. "I wish we had more fakes," said Nicholas Penny, who is also a respected ...

BRITAIN MICHAEL JACKSON

AP News 225 days ago

Cleaners work behind barriers to remove graffiti from the facade of The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, Monday June 29, 2009, after fans of Michael Jackson defaced the wall of the ancient art gallery following the death of the star. The ...

DC museum will get Soutine painting on loan

AP News 264 days ago

Court settlement: National Gallery of Art will retain Chaim Soutine painting on loan A court settlement has transferred ownership of a painting by expressionist Chaim Soutine from the National Gallery of Art to the estate of a Canadian woman who had sued ...

John Watson's School Edinburgh- 5 year olds first day at school -Children put their chairs on desks

ZUMA Press Inc 279 days ago

Children put chairs on their desks after their first day at school at John Watson's School in Belford Road. The building now houses the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Copyright 2009 ZUMA Press Inc

Gathering darkness

Spectator, The London 285 days ago

Gathering darkness Andrew Lambirth on a glorious Caravaggio exhibition at the National Gallery Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), called Caravaggio after his place of birth, has become something of a mythical figure in the half-century or so since his reputation was rescued from obscurity. ...

Master of the horse

Spectator, The London 285 days ago

Exhibitions 1 Master of the horse Stubbs and the Horse National Gallery, until 25 September George Stubbs (1724-1806) is best remembered as the dedicated anatomist of the horse, a man who would spend weeks alone in a room with a suspended equine ...

Restoration drama

Spectator, The London 285 days ago

Recently I received a disobliging letter from a trustee of the National Gallery. The author, a peer of the realm, upbraided me for publishing correspondence between myself and Sir Ernst Gombrich on the restoration of Old Masters, showing that he remained concerned ...

The child in time

Spectator, The London 285 days ago

Exhibitions The child in time Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children from Hogarth to Lawrence The Holburne Museum of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, until 19 June This is the fourth of the Holburne's recent exhibitions devoted to 18th-century British portraiture, a ...

The reality of things

Spectator, The London 285 days ago

The Stuff of Life National Gallery, until 2 October The Westminster Retable National Gallery, until 4 September The fourth in the National Gallery's series of touring exhibitions (remember Paradise in 2003 and Making Faces last year? ) comes to London after showing ...

Finding salvation

Spectator, The London 285 days ago

Exhibitions Finding salvation Boom Boom Clusters Southampton City Art Gallery, until 9 January A tragic love story lies behind the jovial title to this delightful exhibition, which unveils the David and Liza Brown Bequest, the largest ever received by Southampton City Art ...

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