National Gallery, LondonThe English painter Frederick Cayley Robinson may be the least-known artist ever to have a show at the National Gallery. His is not a name on people's lips. Until recently, in fact, not many people wanted to look at his strange and silent paintings, with their highly ordered friezes of spellbound figures, so touched with fin-de-siècle melancholy and yearning. But perhaps the wheel of artistic fortune is about to turn.If it does, it may well be because Cayley Robinson's ar...
From Wednesday 14, National Gallery, London ...
Connoisseurship is a handsome word, calling to mind the dry lips of Sir John
Pope-Hennessy and back copies of Apollo.
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Published 03-Jul-10
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A fascinating new show examines the controversial question of fakery, forgeries and mistaken identities in artThe National Gallery is about to open its worst exhibition ever. The pictures are deplorable: incompetent copies, botched restorations, outright fakes. The most painful thing for the gallery is that it bought most of them genuinely believing they were masterpieces.Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries is the first major exhibition devoted to the work of the gallery's scienti...
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Published 29-Jun-10
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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Published 28-Jun-10
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Nothing is more exciting to a biographer than the 'discovery' of a 'missing' portrait of their subject. But all too often, in their eagerness for new material, even scholars can be duped. Fortunately, scientific methods are making it easier to spot the fakes, as the National Gallery's new exhibition provesI remember as an undergraduate being impressed by the iconoclastic critic John Berger's argument that a fake old master ought to fetch as much on the open market as the real thing, since even t...
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Published 18-Jun-10
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Stevie Wonder hits the UK, Toy Story goes 3D, and it's the last ever Big Brother – our critics pick the unmissable events of the seasonPopStevie WonderAnyone who can't face braving Glastonbury to see the Motown legend's Sunday-night set can head to London's Hyde Park for this headlining show. It's likely to be heavy on the hits, but a little too heavy on the audience participation, if complaints from disgruntled punters at Wonder's recent shows are anything to go by. And be warned: Jamiroquai se...
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Published 23-May-10
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NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents Edward Kienholz?s (1927-1994) renowned installation Roxys, 1960-61. First exhibited at Los Angeles?s Ferus Gallery in 1962, this significant large-scale assemblage represents the first of the artist?s environmental installations, or ?tableaux? as he called them, and has been credited as being one of the earliest examples of what is now ubiquitously referred to as ?installation art.? This exhibition follows the recently acclaimed presentation of a related wor...
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Published 06-May-10
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Another student exhibition, this one at the National Gallery London.
The National Gallery’s Take One Picture scheme invites primary schools throughout the UK to use a painting from the Gallery’s collection as a stimulus for learning across the curriculum. Hundreds of schools have responded to the challenge and submitted work for the annual exhibition.
The 2010 display at the National Gallery demonstrates the innovative ways in which schools have responded to this year’s focus painting, Pierre- ...
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Published 28-Apr-10
Source: www.curatedmag.com
LONDON.- The first major exhibition of its kind,
Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries celebrates the remarkable
collaboration of scientists, conservators and art historians at the National
Gallery. The National Gallery’s Scientific Department was founded in 1934 and
has become a world leader in the study of the materials and techniques of
Western European paintings. Today, the department works ever more
closely with curators and conservators to investigate the physical
char...
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Published 18-Apr-10
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