Behold the National Gallery's surprising showpiece – a splatter of mud!
Are you ready to rediscover a host of our greatest artistic treasures? Then prepare for a trip to the National Gallery because at last, after more than two years of building work, the refurbished Sainsbury Wing — home to what arguably counts as the finest collection of early Renaissance masterpieces outside Italy — is about to reopen. What will visitors find as they eagerly mount the grand staircase?
When the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York reopened in 2020 it made Matisse's jubilant Dance its celebratory centrepiece. Twenty-five years ago Tate Modern lured its first callers into the clutches of an oversized spider, courtesy of Louise Bourgeois. At the end of its £41 million revamp almost two years ago the National Portrait Gallery
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