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Enjoy nocturnal culture with our guide to the best museum lates London has to offer, from DJs among the dinosaurs to arty parties
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Dance
Two diametrically opposed works – Chiara Bersani’s Seeking Unicorns and Oona Doherty’s Navy Blue – provide much food for thought in this year’s edition of Dance Umbrella
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Talks
Sit in on a discussion about music, art and literature as they combine in opera, with images from the great collections
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The National Gallery explores David Bomberg's fascination with the old masters
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The National Gallery's Paul Gauguin exhibition is the first ever exhibition to focus solely on the artist's portraits
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Shimmering portraits of a nation: the first major UK retrospective of Joaquín Sorolla’s work in 100 years comes to the National Gallery
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The National Gallery gives French artist Louis-Leopold Boilly his first UK exhibition – it's a short, sweet, captivating delight
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The National Gallery plays host to the first ever exhibition of Lorenzo Lotto, whose portraits are so alive they stare back
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As the Courtauld Gallery closes for a two-year refurbishment, National Gallery presents the creme-de-la-creme of the Courtauld Impressionist collection
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A rare display of Thomas Cole’s landscapes have crossed the waters and landed at the National Gallery: it's time for mountain crags, epic vistas and transnational debate
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Progress and pop art: Ed Ruscha’s Course of Empire at the National Gallery is a 2018 highlight
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The National Gallery's new exhibition of Claude Monet paintings majestically illuminates a much neglected facet of the painter's work
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Reflections explores how Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait triggered a revolution in British painting
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Visual Arts
After a long sojourne apart, the only two surviving Bartolomé Esteban Murillos are reunited at London's National Gallery
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Monochrome explores the tradition of painting in black and white through the ages
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The beauty of this monumental exhibition lies in its simplicity and its thematic focus on a lesser known facet of Cézanne's oeuvre
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Visual Arts
To celebrate the National Gallery's upcoming exhibition, Monochrome, hear neon-light artist Olafur Eliasson in conversation with National Gallery curator Jennifer Sliwka
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Visual Arts
Rare pastels by Edgar Degas come to London via Glasgow’s Burrell Collection, revealing the artist's complex relationship to modernity
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Things to do
Summer may have left us: but there's plenty of beauty to come. Here are the major exhibitions you need to know about this autumn
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National Gallery breaks stalemate to reunite five Van Gogh Sunflowers – in a world-first Facebook Live relay
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Visual Arts
Smooth Finnish: the glassy surface of Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Lake Keitele comes to London at the National Gallery
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A solo show for Turner Prize winner Chris Ofili: tapestries come to the National Gallery
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Michelangelo's divinity shines through in this National Gallery exhibition. Sebastiano does not fare so well
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Shaking off winter: come and delight in this National Gallery Dutch Flowers exhibition
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Visual Arts
National Gallery London 2016 exhibition celebrates the dramatic masterpieces by French Romantic Delacroix
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Kids
This February half-term the National Gallery is hosting free drop-in sculpture making workshops for kids
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Kids
Let the bells ring out for Christmas at the National Gallery's bell tower construction workshop and other family friendly craft crash courses this winter
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Visual Arts
Get up and close and personal with the National Gallery's spectacular Renaissance treasure, the Palmieri alterpiece
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Portraiture from one of the finest Spanish artists at the National Gallery: Goya’s sitters come to life in this highly anticipated 2015 exhibition
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'His genius has never shone brighter' - Caravaggio is still top of the class at this National Gallery exhibition
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Painters' Paintings: National Gallery London explores the spectacular works collected by star artists in 2016 exhibition
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Tis' the season: Top Christmas exhibitions London 2015