NewsAppointments
National Gallery of Art recruits the first woman and person of colour to serve as its chief curator
As the museum commits itself to diversity, E. Carmen Ramos, a curator of Latino art, will be “the principal architect of the visitor experience”
Newsreopenings
Smithsonian will reopen eight museums and other venues in May after more than five-month closures
National of Gallery of Art also plans to open its West Building in Washington, DC
NewsAcquisitions
A 'milestone' moment—US National Gallery of Art acquires 40 works by Black Southern artists
Works were purchased from Souls Grown Deep Foundation in a move that could ‘alter the canon of American art'
NewsAcquisitions
Acquisitions round-up: European museums co-purchase El Anatsui sculpture from collector Uli Sigg
Woodland scene by Jan Brueghel the Elder heads to Washington DC; London’s National Portrait Gallery gets a Gainsborough via acceptance in lieu
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Smithsonian and National Gallery of Art will shut down again amid spike in coronavirus cases
Move by Washington, DC museums comes amid a wave of new US closures
NewsPhilip Guston
After tumult, museums say that a delayed Philip Guston exhibition will open in 2022
Citing “unease and anxiety” about the show, the director of MFA, Boston predicts it will spur “in-depth discussions about great art”
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Two Van Gogh fakes in Washington? Strong evidence produced against early drawings at the National Gallery of Art
Revelations in new book about an attic discovery throw fresh light on Vincent’s decision to become an artist
NewsPhilip Guston
Directors of Tate and the National Gallery of Art defend controversial decision to delay Philip Guston show
“An exhibition with such strong commentary on race cannot be done by all white curators,” says NGA chief Kaywin Feldman
AnalysisControversies
Philip Guston’s KKK paintings ‘are not asleep—they’re woke’: catalogue contradicts museum statement controversially halting show
Essays from African American artists such as Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock show that issues were being addressed
NewsPhilip Guston
Critics, scholars—and even museum’s own curator—condemn decision to postpone Philip Guston show over Ku Klux Klan imagery
Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern
NewsFakes & copies
Two US museums plan to investigate their Gauguins after amateur art sleuth says they are fake
French-born Gauguin enthusiast Fabrice Fourmanoir correctly identified a fake in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s earlier this year
NewsInterview
Kaywin Feldman on how America's National Gallery of Art will 'attract the nation and reflect it, too'
The Washington museum's first female director is breaking down old silos and diversifying the staff, collection and exhibitions
NewsConservation & Preservation
‘A resting time for the art’: with museums shut, US conservators seize on strategies to safeguard their collections
Experts embrace a blend of remote monitoring and on-site tours, while marvelling at diminished levels of dust
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Four North American museums cancel exhibition of masterworks from Liechtenstein’s princely collections
National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime
NewsArt theft
Rembrandt paintings targeted by thieves at Dulwich Picture Gallery belonged to Louvre and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Attempted robbery was thwarted by police
NewsObituaries
Modern art historian, US museum director and clergyman EA Carmean, Jr has died, age 74
He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
ArchiveExhibitions
The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology provides a revolution in Chinese history
265 works discovered by Chinese archaeologists, mostly over the last twenty-five years, are on loan in an exhibition that shows why the textbooks have had to be rewritten.
PreviewExhibitions
Verrocchio's first major US survey to delve into his role in shaping the High Renaissance
The artist is best known as Leonardo’s teacher, but an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington aims to highlight his own technical accomplishment and inventiveness
NewsMoon
Lunar landing anniversary inspires tributes to the Moon across the globe
Exhibitions and events at museums and galleries worldwide proves we are still looney for the Moon 50 years after setting foot on it
PreviewExhibitions
Civil War references hide in plain sight in American pre-Raphaelite art
Landscapes on view at the National Gallery contain hidden historical clues
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Kaywin Feldman shatters the glass ceiling at the National Gallery of Art in Washington
During her first week on the job, the new director reveals her aspirations for the museum
NewsShutdown
Counting the cost of the longest government shutdown in US history
The shutdown dealt a blow to federally-funded museums, with disappointed visitors, furloughed staff, disrupted exhibitions and lost revenue that “can never be regained”
News
National Gallery of Art in Washington hires its first female director
Kaywin Feldman, to begin in March, currently leads the Minneapolis Institute of Art
NewsExhibitions
Hands-on research underpins a pioneering chiaroscuro woodcut exhibition
Scientists and artists replicated the Renaissance design, inking and printing process
NewsContemporary art
Rachel Whiteread’s breakthrough work Ghost gets complex conservation treatment
Structural engineers and architects were among those restoring the room-sized cast at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
BlogIn the frame
Humour in the age of Trump—and far before it—explored at Washington, DC's National Gallery
Analysis
Museums too: what should institutions do when artists are accused of abuse?
As the #MeToo movement grows, US museums find themselves embroiled in ethical dilemmas
Newsscholarship
National Gallery names art historian Wu Hung as 2019 Mellon Lecturer
The scholar will give six talks surveying more than 2,000 years of Chinese history
ReviewExhibitions
National Gallery of Art show integrates the outliers
Outliers and American Vanguard Art in Washington, DC, makes clear that schooled and self-taught artists have never been that far apart
PreviewExhibitions
Washington show aims to clear up muddy ‘Outsider art’ label
From erotic photographs to psychedelic quilts, a reappraisal of autodidacticism features more than 80 eclectic artists
ArchiveExhibitions
Dulwich Picture Gallery puts Warhol in context
The decorative qualities of the pop artist put him in a tradition dating back to the 18th century
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA makes a stand by acquiring video removed from display by Washington's NPG
Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly is already on display at the New York museum
ArchiveMadrid
In Madrid,“Goya: images of women” shows current academic preoccupations while in Washington it will be more conventional
Double duty Goya: the travelling show adapts to its contexts
ArchiveDavid Zwirner
Zwirner deal with National Gallery of Art
Cohen photos go to Washington, DC
ArchiveJanuary 2007
Jasper Johns: 'I was trying to see something, to see what seeing consisted of'
As a show devoted to his work from the 1950s and 1960s opens at the National Gallery of Art, Johns looks back on the decade
ArchiveJanuary 2007
Jasper Johns: 'I was trying to see something, to see what seeing consisted of'
As the National Gallery of Art opens a show devoted to the artist’s work from the 1950s and 60s, he looks back on the decade and reflects on the process of making
ArchiveJ.M.W. Turner
Dealer who sold Turner masterpiece says it will go on public view in UK
Both the US National Gallery and Tate wanted to acquire The Dark Rigi but it was sold to a private collector
ArchiveTate
How the US National Gallery and Tate were beaten to Turner masterpiece
The Dark Rigi has become embroiled in murky legal waters
ArchiveLaw
Washington's National Gallery wraps up Vuillard catalogue plagiarism suit with $37,500 payment to Annette Leduc and Brooks Beaulieu
However, a complaint lodged against Guy Cogeval, Antoine Salomon and Mathias Chivot was met with a counter-suit arguing that evidence had been fabricated
ArchiveMark Rothko
Rothko exhibition for China and South Korea
The travelling exhibition will be the first major show on the artist in either country
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
The National Gallery Washington looks to Leonardo and the women of the Renaissance
Seeing the true face of Florence
ArchiveLooting
Growing unease over looted Lubomirski Dürers
A sheet of paper found in a second-hand book by The Art Newspaper details valuations of the drawings when sold by Colnaghi
ArchiveMark Rothko
Shedding light on Rothko’s light: Abstract Expressionism at the National Gallery of Art
The biggest show of the artist’s work for over twenty years derails the view that his highly charged colour-field paintings were a reflection of his moods
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Calder hangs on at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
The master of mobiles and his relation to Parisian Modernism reassessed
ArchiveCatalogues raisonnés
Books: A catalogue raisonné for Mark Rothko
Only Gorky and Pollock of his peers has so far been catalogued
ArchiveNational Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Bellotto’s “Königstein” bought by Washington's National Gallery for $9.6 million
It makes it their most expensive purchase since Leonardo’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”
ArchiveRauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange
The Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange ends its six year world tour at the National Gallery, Washington
“One-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers”, says artist
ArchiveRobert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg’s fifteen minutes: an assessment of the artist's impact as he takes over New York
After Warhol and Johns, it’s the turn of the globe-trotting