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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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  • From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection; 31 January 2010 - 31 July 2011; National Gallery West Building
  • The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600 - 1700; 28 February - 31 May 2010; National Gallery East Building
  • Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales; Corcoran
  • Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction; 6 February - 9 May;The Philips Collection
  • Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change; Corcoran; 10 April - 18 July
  • In the Realm of the Buddha; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; until 18 July
    • Lama, Patron, Artist: The Great Situ Panchen
    • The Tibetan Shrine From the Alice S. Kandell Collection
jan 30 2010 ∞
sep 20 2010 +