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Hockney scrolls through Bayeux, Brideshead gets revisited and Stubbs leads the field – the week in art

A spectacular record of a year in Normandy, the photogenic buildings of Sir John Vanbrugh and extraordinary paintings of horses

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the funding crisis at the National Gallery: the public should not pay the price

Editorial: Financial difficulties at one of the UK’s most prestigious institutions are a sign of the times. But maintaining free access to great art must be a priority

The Guardian - UK

What the National Gallery staff cuts reveal about the state of arts funding

London’s National Gallery has launched a “voluntary exit” scheme for staff to address an £8.2 million deficit, with the possibility of redundancies to follow. The news bodes ill for cultural institutions and cuts, in contrast to the recent announcement of additional cultural funding from the UK government.

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National Gallery to make major cuts in effort to stem ballooning deficit

Move could mean fewer free exhibitions and paid-for shows and more expensive tickets

The Guardian - UK

I Leaned Into the “Grandma’s House” Look for My Farmhouse Living Room —and I’m Not Going Back

From floral prints to classic patterns and comforting textures, this is how to bring that familiar, collected farmhouse feeling into your space

Livingetc

Dark depths with Emin, a homoerotic saint and punchy political posters – the week in art

Tracey gathers the melancholy giants, a lost London is remembered and collages celebrate Scots strugglers

The Guardian - UK

Exploring the home town of the artist Joseph Wright of Derby

With a new exhibition of his work at the National Gallery in London, a visit to the artist’s home town reveals the landscapes and industry that inspired him

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Luminous Enlightenment, dark genius and Soviet shades – the week in art

Joseph Wright of Derby’s shining innovation, Diane Arbus’s haunting portraits and an Uzbek angle on the end of the USSR

The Guardian - UK

Art lovers rejoice: the National Gallery can finally show us when painting really gets exciting

Curators can now chart the seismic shifts in 20th-century art – and include more works by women and artists of colour, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

The dotty genius of Seurat and a song and dance about Picasso – the week in art

Tate Modern reframes its Picassos in a theatrical light, there’s a hands-on utopia in Gateshead, and the Cerne chalk giant gets a colourful new neighbour

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery accused of risking ‘bad blood’ with Tate over 20th-century art

Sources say decision to collect ‘modern’ art could have two galleries ‘at each others’ throats’ – but others welcome move

The Guardian - UK

UK's National Gallery will use $500 million in donations for a new wing and expanded collection

Britain’s National Gallery has announced it will use almost half a billion dollars in donations to open a new wing that will allow it to expand its collection into modern art

The Independent UK

Why the National Gallery is creating a public panel to help shape its future

What do you expect to see when visiting the National Gallery in London? A neatly curated collection of landscape painting? Or a selection of the gallery’s must-see highlights – a veritable who’s-who of art history?

The Conversation

I saw the M&S x National Gallery collection IRL and it looks even better in person – it’s a masterclass in maximalist, opulent design

This beautiful collection stopped me in my tracks

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Gems from Paris, sofas from Philadelphia and cinema from puppets – the week in art

Millet’s iconic Angelus visits the UK, Philly shows its subtle side, while east and west face off in a puppet retelling of history

The Independent UK

National Gallery exhibition to shine a light on works of Renoir

The exhibition, Renoir And Love, will feature more than 50 works and will go in display in October next year.

Livingetc

London's Most Famous Italian Chef Has Set Up Shop Inside the National Gallery — And the Food Is So Good It Competes With the Art

We spent a lunch break at Locatelli, the freshly unveiled restaurant by Michelin-starred culinary powerhouse Giorgio Locatelli, and asked him about the inspirations behind his latest venture

The Guardian - UK

Research confirms that Samson and Delilah is a Rubens

Letter: The National Gallery has published detailed research into Samson and Delilah, writes Gabriele Finaldi

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From Jenny Saville’s gobsmacking show to a pomo celebration of Richard Rogers – the week in art

Saville paints beauty and terror, Watteau returns, a £2.5m Rubens gets an unfair drubbing and erotic art reveals itself

The Conversation

The National Gallery at 200: is this rehang a bold relaunch or rinse and repeat?

The National Gallery has recently rehung its entire collection. Taking hundreds of paintings off the wall and replacing them in a new arrangement requires considerable mental and physical labour on the part of curators, conservators and technicians.

The Guardian - UK

A sumptuous rehang, jumbo jellyfish and naive manly paintings – the week in art

The revamped National Gallery offers a new take on its glorious wonders, a psychoanalytical painter tackles masculinity, and abstract watercolours rise from the deep

Evening Standard

The National Gallery rehang review: 'what a 200th birthday treat this is'

5/5 With a complete architectural overhaul of the Sainsbury and a rehang of its collection., The National is truly making its wonders shine

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery rehang review – ‘A momentous retelling of the story of art’

t is one of the world’s greatest museums and this revamp starts with a thrilling embrace from Leonardo, unfolding to Titian, Van Eyck, Monet and more – all bolstered by cool new architecture and lighting. What a wonderland!

The Guardian - UK

‘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 the empty space?

The Independent UK

National Gallery spends £16m on painting without knowing where it’s from or who the artist is

Painting full of ‘wildly inventive’ details to be publicly exhibited for first time since 1960

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