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Celebrating the National Gallery on Google Arts & Culture
The National Gallery is celebrating its Bicentenary. To celebrate two centuries of bringing people and paintings together, we are undertaking a year-long festival of art, creativity, and imagination and today we’re thrilled to announce an inspiring new collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, The National Gallery Reframed. Building on more than 13 years of partnership, this exciting project brings 200 of our most treasured paintings to life in the digital realm, offering new and engaging ways to experience these works, including through music and AI with the National Gallery Mixtape.
Unprecedented detail
Explore 200 paintings in extraordinary detail, thanks to Google Arts & Culture’s ultra-high resolution digitisation, revealing nuances often invisible to the naked eye. Zoom in on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888) to see the subtle texture of the canvas, the thick impasto strokes that give the flowers their dimension, and the artist’s vibrant yellow palette. Re-discover the mysterious scene in Van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait (1434), from the inscription on the back wall to the figures reflected in the mirror. Or marvel at the delicate brushwork in Gossaert’s The Adoration of the Kings (1510-15), particularly the king’s gifts and the angels’ wings. Browse these iconic paintings by time or colour and gain a new perspective on artistic detail.
Children and young people will have an opportunity to see their creations displayed digitally in an exhibition at one of Scotland’s national galleries.
The 2025 Worcester 100 Open Art Exhibition will be held at the Artery Gallery, Croft Walk, from Saturday 8 to Saturday, March 15.
The free event will showcase a range of artistic styles, including paintings, prints, photography, and sculptures.
Opening times will vary throughout the week.
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Three in five small UK museums and galleries fear closure amid declining revenue, new research suggests
Three in five small museums and galleries in the UK fear closure amid declining revenue and footfall, research published this week suggests. The survey of 40 small, independent attractions—those with fewer than 100,000 annual visitors—also found that four in five (78%) reported the current period as the most challenging the sector has faced, while over half (58%) said overall income has not returned to its pre-Covid levels.
The research, conducted by the cloud platform GoDaddy in partnership with the charity Kids in Museums, surveyed small museums as well as galleries, historic buildings and heritage sites. Alison Bowyers, the executive director of Kids in Museums, tells The Art Newspaper that UK museums are suffering more than their counterparts in mainland Europe.
