Grumpy Art Historian

Michelangelo & Sebastiano National Gallery London to 25 June Sebastiano del Piombo’s great fortune was to be taken under Michelan...

Picture: MS It looks like some one has run their fingers across this frame at the National Gallery, breaking off a big chunk of gilding...

The National Gallery has outsourced its security; the guards' strike was an abject failure, as AHN explains . The Union had a weak ha...

Picture: Wikipedia This picture has haunted me since I first saw it some years ago in Utrecht's Catherijneconvent. It's a tiny ...

Picture: BBC The National Gallery's guards are striking against plans to outsource their jobs. People are understandably annoyed at...

Picture: National Gallery This rediscovered Pontormo has been on loan to the National Gallery since 2009. It's a fantastic picture,...

Picture: Google Art criticism is too often too uncritical, but writing about museums and galleries is an especially hagiographic genr...

Picture: Artcult.com To paraphrase Marx (Groucho), the critics all say that this is a brilliant show, but don't let that fool you -...

Picture: Wikipedia After visiting the National Gallery today I popped into Quinto on Charing Cross Road and was delighted to find a che...

Picture: GalleristNY.com New acquisitions are always exciting.  For all that I pretend to hate novelty (which I define as more or les...

Picture: NG I recently noticed that the National Gallery is hanging the early Degas Young Spartans Exercising  next to Ingres in the ro...

Picture: Guardian I saw the newly attributed Titian at the National Gallery today.  I hadn't expected much from the pictures, but I...

Picture: Guardian The Guardian reports on a Titian rediscovery at the NG, followed up at Art History News  (which points out that it...