US EditionUK's National Gallery Will Use $500 Million in Donations for a New Wing and Expanded Collection
The National Gallery's Project Domani will add space for 250 artworks, funded by record £375 million donations, expanding its collection to include 20th-century and contemporary art.
- Britain's National Gallery announced it will use 375 million pounds in donations to open a new wing that will include modern art.
- The gallery received 150 million pounds from the Crankstart foundation and the same amount from the Julia Rausing Trust.
- The gallery aims 'to be the place where the U.K. public and visitors can enjoy the finest painting collection from medieval times to present, in a superb setting.
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UK's National Gallery will use $500 million in donations for a new wing and expanded collection (Entertainment)
Britain's National Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping 375 million pounds ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first time, will include modern art. Founded in 1824, the gallery has amassed a centuries-spanning collection of Western paintings by artists from ...
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UK's National Gallery will use $500 million in donations for a new wing and expanded collection
Britain’s National Gallery has announced it will use almost half a billion dollars in donations to open a new wing that will allow it to expand its collection into modern art.
So far, she has focused on art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. Now she will begin to systematically collect modern and contemporary works as well.
National Gallery to expand into a Brutalist block behind the Sainsbury Wing
The National Gallery is about to get bigger as it has announced plans to expand into a hotel/office block it owns behind the main gallery buildings. A brutalist concrete building behind the Sainsbury Wing was built in 1967-70 to a design by Charles Pike & Partners, and bought by the National Gallery about 30 years ago. St Vincent House (c) The National Gallery, London At the moment, it’s used partially as a hotel and office building, and the for…
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