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Review: Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
In London, Covid-19 has closed the British National Gallery. Meanwhile in Canberra, Australia’s National Gallery has opened its doors to an elegant selection of works from Britain’s collection. The two events are not connected, but they do signal how times have changed.
Since 1963, when the Mona Lisa was sent to Washington, asset rich but income poor art museums have relished the combination of kudos and cash that can come with a international tour of collection highlights. Some exhibitions originate when the home institution is closed for redevelopment, others are finely honed exercises in art diplomacy.
Installation view: Vincent van Gogh “Sunflowers”, 1888. Image courtesy The National Gallery, London
THE National Gallery of Australia is onto a sure thing with its coming blockbuster, “Botticelli to van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London”.
Exclusive to Canberra, the exhibition postponed from late last year because of COVID-19 will now open to the public from March 5, spanning 500 years of art-making with works by 57 of Europe’s most revered artists, now set in “the safe and pristine surroundings of the national capital” – what’s not to like?
Sally Foster, the NGA’s coordinating curator for the show and curator, international prints, drawings and books, is run off her feet when I catch up with her.
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