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V&A East Storehouse opens in London, a museum-depot displaying more than half a million works

An exhibition space that challenges traditional models of museum enjoyment has opened in London. It is called the V&A East Storehouse(video presentation here) and is, technically, a warehouse although, the architecture, layout and principle gover...
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The National Gallery is enriched with three new works: Degas, a German Romantic and a Dutch

Three new acquisitions for the National Gallery in London on the occasion of the museum's bicentennial are a pastel by Edgar Degas depicting Ballerinas, Carl Gustav Carus ' View of the Sky from a Prison Window, and Floris van Dijck's Still Life with ...
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London's Royal Academy of Arts, the masterpieces of a little-known museum in the English capital

Each of us has a firm conviction not to be part of the masses, to break away from the qualunquialisms and common customs that a massified society has imposed: it is also with these intentions that we set out on vacation, certain that we will carve ou...
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London, Sainsbury Wing reopens at National Gallery after two years, with new entrance

At the National Gallery in London , after a two-year closure, the SainsburyWing (Sainsbury Wing), which will also be the museum's new main entrance, reopens. The opening is set for today, Saturday, May 10, 2025, as part of the Gallery's 200th anniver...
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London, National Gallery acquires mysterious Northern Renaissance altarpiece

As part of its bicentennial celebrations, the National Gallery in London announced the acquisition of an extraordinary and mysterious Northern Renaissance altarpiece, dated around 1510, that had not been on public display for more than 60 years. The ...
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Xerxes Mazda is the new director of collections at the British Museum

New Director of Collections at the British Museum in London appointed: he is Xerxes Mazda. Currently Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the British Library, where he led curatorial teams and was responsible for many of the major digiti...
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London, at the National Portrait Gallery the first exhibition in the UK devoted to portraitist Munch

The National Portrait Gallery in London will host from March 13 to June 15, 2025, the exhibition Edvard Munch Portraits, curated by Alison Smith (former chief curator of the National Portrait Gallery and current director of collections and research a...
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London, Parmigianino's Vision of St. Jerome returns to view after a decade

For the first time in a decade, a masterpiece by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola; Parma, 1503 - Casalmaggiore, 1540) is returning to public view at the National Gallery in London after careful conservation work: this is the Vision of S...
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