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Italian Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum: The Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Atlas on Display

Ten years of research and cataloging have culminated at the British Museum, where Italian Renaissance woodcuts are the focus of a major exhibition. The project, sponsored by the Giorgio Cini Foundation’sInstitute of Art History and curated by L...
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James McNeill Whistler: The Dandy Between Aestheticism and Japonism. A Look at the Exhibition at Tate Britain

Born in New England in 1834 and having moved to Europe at a very young age, James McNeill Whistler was not only a key figure in European painting during the Post-Impressionist era, but also a theatrical character, witty and irreverent, a polemical pa...
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London: The National Gallery Hosts the First Exhibition on Jan van Eyck’s Portraits, Bringing Together 10 Masterpieces from Across Europe

The National Gallery in London is dedicating its first-ever exhibition to the portraits of Jan van Eyck, one of the greatest figures of the Northern Renaissance. The exhibition, titled “Van Eyck: The Portraits,” will run from November 21, 2026, to Ap...
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London: Gagosian Celebrates René Magritte and His Legacy in Contemporary Art

From September 24 to December 12, 2026, the Gagosian gallery on Grosvenor Hill in London presents *This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte*, an exhibition dedicated to René Magritte and the influence the artist continues to exert o...
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A very rare amber pendant featuring a portrait of Elizabeth I is up for auction at Sotheby’s London

An extremely rare pendant depicting Queen Elizabeth I will be the highlight of an auction organized by Sotheby’s in London on July 1. Dating from around 1600—the final years of the English monarch’s reign—the jewel is one of the rarest kn...
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Churchill painter: at the Wallace Collection, London, the first major posthumous exhibition in the UK

The Wallace Collection in London is dedicating a major retrospective to the paintings of Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the first major posthumous exhibition in the United Kingdom devoted to his art. The exhibition, open to the public from May 23...
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The Bayeux Tapestry will be on display at the British Museum from September 2026. Some previews from the museum

The British Museum in London has announced the first details of what has already been dubbed the exhibition of the century, which will see the display of the famous Bayeux Tapestry for the first time in the UK, from September 10, 2026 to July 11, 202...
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It will be Kengo Kuma's Japanese studio that will expand the National Gallery in London

It is the Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates, founded in Tokyo in 1990 by Kengo Kuma and active in the field of architecture and design, that won, in collaboration with BDP and MICA, the international competition to design the new wing of the Na...
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