Caravaggio portrait, unseen for decades, goes on view in Rome
A privately-owned portrait believed to be by Caravaggio goes on display Saturday (23 November) in a “momentous” Rome exhibition for ...
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Jenny Saville and Edvard Munch headline 2025 programme at London’s National Portrait Gallery
One of the UK’s most prominent painters, Jenny Saville, will be the subject of a blockbuster show at the National ...
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Paula Rego paintings replace royal portrait at No.10 Downing Street
Two works by the late Portuguese artist Paula Rego have gone on show at No.10 Downing Street, the home of ...
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A fragmented film portrait of Suzanne Césaire, the feminist intellectual who influenced Surrealism and Négritude
“The fragment is a really important structure for telling stories that have been heavily impacted by colonialism,” the film-maker Madeleine ...
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National Portrait Gallery charts a personal path through the career of Francis Bacon
The National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) first Francis Bacon exhibition is an overdue acknowledgement of one of the 20th century’s foremost ...
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did PM really ‘get rid’ of No. 10’s Thatcher portrait?
Keir Starmer is really not keen on a portrait of the former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher hanging in 10 ...
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Former Frieze fair chief Victoria Siddall appointed director of London’s National Portrait Gallery
The former global director of Frieze art fair, Victoria Siddall, has been appointed director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) ...
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Cranach portrait will be sold in accord between Pennsylvania museum and Jewish heirs
A portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop will be auctioned at Christie’s in January 2025 after a ...
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Zandra Rhodes textiles inspired by Uluru, a Cavalcanti head and a portrait by Mary Beale
Mary Beale, Portrait of Anne Sotheby (1676-77)Tate, LondonMary Beale, one of a handful of female professional artists active in late ...
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Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart at centre of portrait controversy
The mining billionaire Gina Rinehart demanded that a portrait of her by the Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira be removed from ...
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