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Saint Francis of Assisi review – a saint for all seasons

Cheerful, selfless Saint Francis is forcefully present in this enthralling show of art and imagery from the Renaissance to the present inspired by the muse, mystic and social radical

The Guardian - UK

Saint Francis of Assisi review – did you know the bird-loving roamer was a Marvel superhero?

From Caravaggio’s most explicitly gay painting to the action-packed pages of a superhero comic, this exhibition of art inspired by the roving radical is enrapturing

The Guardian - UK

NGA to stop promoting Indigenous exhibit after fraud allegations

The review will assess if Indigenous artists had "creative control" over the paintings.

The Canberra Times

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Saint Francis of Assisi: who was the man behind the National Gallery’s new blockbuster exhibition?

Evening Standard

Arts Centre Collective denies accusation of interfering

The APY Art Centre Collective has denied accusations arts workers have overstepped their bounds in assisting artists for an upcoming National Gallery show.

AAP

Authorship of APY Lands artwork subject to independent review ahead of national exhibition

The National Gallery of Australia has launched an independent review into the origins of the First Nations artwork in its Ngura Pulka – Epic Country exhibition after questions were raised about the role of non-Indigenous studio assistants in the creation of the art.

ABC News

Federal budget to boost funds for cultural institutions

Nine key cultural institutions, including Old Parliament House and the National Gallery of Australia, will receive more than half a billion dollars in funding.

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After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at the National Gallery review: an artistic explosion

This was a time when art really was everything everywhere all at once

Evening Standard

After Impressionism review – radical ideas and ecstatic sex from the edge of a new universe

Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards

The Guardian - UK

Mona Lisa v ‘the monstrous’: the grotesque, shocking side of Leonardo da Vinci

The Italian master didn’t just paint the conventionally beautiful. As a new National Gallery show reveals, he was also drawn to irregular, diseased and aged faces – all captured with mind-bending accuracy and compassion

The Guardian - UK

The Ugly Duchess at the National Gallery review: gives this memorable lady the last laugh

This tiny exhibition – just five paintings, with some magnificent drawings – makes a point about Renaissance humour, which could be cruel to age and ugliness.

Evening Standard

‘She is most likely a he’: New art exhibition challenges gender of 16th-century Massys painting ‘An Old Woman’

Also known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’, Massys’ painting has historically been considered a depiction of a woman with a bone disease

The Independent UK

‘She is a he’: Was An Old Woman, the painting that inspired Alice’s Duchess, actually a man?

Curator of Renaissance art exhibition claims grotesque sitter for portrait didn’t have a disfiguring disease, as was previously thought

The Guardian - UK

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