National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Biggest-ever Indigenous art show to tour North America
Opening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, next year, The Stars We Do Not See will include highlights that are "globally recognised as undisputed masterpieces"
Van Gogh blockbuster, the birth of Impressionism, Juan Pablo Echeverri — podcast
A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book zoning in on the Impressionists’ “Terrible Year” and a highlight from Museum Folkwang’s hair-themed show
US National Gallery acquires four Robert Longo drawings, including one of the 6 January insurrection
The monumental works highlight both the might and the fragility of US government institutions
Prison sentence for climate activist who targeted US National Gallery of Art’s Degas statue
In addition to spending 60 days in prison, Joanna Smith will have to serve 150 hours of community service, ten of which she must spend cleaning graffiti
UBS Art Collection gives 166 photographs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Drawn from a 300-work sub-collection gathered by John Szarkowski in the 1990s, the gift includes images by 96 photographers—among them Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston
Acquisitions round-up: Cleveland museum buys a sumptuous 16th-century wooden carving, once part of an altarpiece
Plus, the UK’s first permanent public sculpture by a Black female artist goes to Warwick University, and National Gallery of Art lands a collection of 20 shadow boxes by Joseph Cornell
Keith Piper on tackling Tate Britain’s racist Whistler mural
Plus, the top takeaways from the new Art Basel/UBS report and a weaving by Anni Albers
Protester charged for defacing African American Civil War memorial at US National Gallery of Art
A climate activist with the group Declare Emergency has been taken into custody over a paint-smearing incident at the museum last year
Caught red-handed: climate activist pleads guilty to defacing Degas exhibit at National Gallery of Art
Joanna Smith faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine
US National Gallery of Art receives its first works of Haitian art, via two gifts
The 15 works, donated by two collecting couples, will form the core of an exhibition in autumn 2024
Artists withdraw work from US National Gallery in protest of ‘government funding of Israel’s military assault’ in Gaza
A collaborative sculpture by Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson was removed from an exhibition at the Washington, DC museum
Dorothea Lange survey reveals how studio apprenticeships influenced how she later approached documentary photography
An exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, examines five decades of the pioneering photographer’s portraits
How museum guides are being enlisted in the US culture wars
Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums
Federally funded museums in the US brace for government shutdown
The Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art are making plans for continuing operations amid a government shutdown that appears increasingly likely
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC apologises to visitor with a disability who was forcibly removed
Celeste Tooth, a student and artist, was escorted off the museum premises following a disagreement with a guard over their backpack
Prized Leonardo portrait on the move at US National Gallery of Art amid renovations
The Washington, DC museum will move “Ginevra de' Benci” to a different gallery through early 2024
Climate protestors who targeted US National Gallery of Art’s Degas sculpture face prison time
The two protesters have have been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy
Climate protestors attack Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
A man and a woman have daubed red and black paint on the display case containing 'Little Dancer'
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is the most popular US art museum for first time since 2008
The museum narrowly beat the Met Fifth Avenue in New York into second place in 2022
The Met down 1.7 million visitors compared to pre-pandemic level—the biggest drop of any US art museum
The New York institution, usually the most popular art museum in the US, was overtaken in 2022 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will be the first artist to curate a show at the US National Gallery of Art
Smith’s exhibition will include works by around 50 living Native artists, including several that have recently been acquired by the NGA
Art from persecuted Jewish dealer draws scrutiny at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Findings about the provenance of two Old Master drawings in the museum’s collection may test the pro-restitution stance recently adopted at US national institutions
US National Gallery of Art acquires major work by overlooked Native American Abstract Expressionist
The untitled 1961 painting, by Chippewa artist George Morrison, is the first by a Native American member of the New York School movement in the NGA’s collection
The Big Review: Vittore Carpaccio at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC ★★★★☆
The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.
Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art acquires Leonardo da Vinci drawing that helped inspire centuries of caricature artists
The drawing, Grotesque Head of an Old Woman (1489-90), was last displayed at the museum in 2017 and is now available for study
Climate action: what is the art world doing?
Plus, the US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund and one of the last paintings of Paula Modersohn-Becker
US National Gallery of Art gifted $10m to fund acquisitions of works by women
The programme's launch follows the recent acquisition of a painting by 16th-century Mannerist Lavinia Fontana and a polychrome statue by 17th-century sculptor Luisa Roldán
Trove of Benin bronzes in US museum collections repatriated to Nigeria
The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC
Vermeer at the National Gallery in Washington, DC declared not the real thing
The downgrading follows a study of the six paintings in the museum's collection thought to be by the Dutch master, which are now the subject of an exhibition detailing the findings
Controversially postponed Philip Guston show finally gets going. How has it changed?
The changing of dates of a four-city survey, purportedly due to the artist’s Ku Klux Klan motifs, caused uproar in 2020. Now, after a curatorial rethink, the first exhibition is set to open