National Gallery
About National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current director of the National Gallery is Gabriele Finaldi.
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All the art of the National Gallery was sent to a cave in Wales. By the end of the war it was the most high-tech cave in the world because they built a railway inside the cave to move all the art around.
from No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 at 00:50:34 · read transcript
Other times National Gallery came up
It's a great feature. Kings Cross left luggage office? Absolutely not. He had to cash him on a ledge. National Gallery were incredibly rude to Saskia and her young friend. One of the cloakroom attendants said, out of the question, the second said, you need your head examined, and the third said, that's very, very irresponsible. Get on, yeah. Wait a minute, that was all in the same...
449: No Such Thing As the Blancmange Olympics, 2022-10-21 · listen
Because he was quite a bohemian. He was quite a pacifist. A lot of his friends had kind of ditched him over. his stance in the war. He got Charles Holmes, who was the director of the National Gallery, on side, and he found a huge art auction that was happening in Paris. All of Degas' collection was being sold. They went to the auction. Holmes had shaved his moustache, so he wouldn't be recognized as the director of the National Gallery, just in case.
No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 · listen
There are a few different reasons they gave, but one of them was that someone might headbutt a picture and cut themselves. Who's going around art galleries headbutting pictures? The Millwall fans day out to the National Gallery. I'm sorry I even mentioned a Millwall fan. Actually, have you read that the headbutting world record has recently been set, recently been reset and beaten, and by quite some way.
79: No Such Thing As A Sad High Five, 2015-09-18 · listen
Yes, please leave the baby with us. Really? We'll stash him on a ledge. National Gallery were incredibly rude to Saskia and her young friend. One of the cloakroom attendants said, out of the question. The second said, you need your head examined. The third said, that's very, very irresponsible. Good on you. I know. Wait a minute. That was all in the same. That was all so close.
No Such Thing As the Blancmange Olympics, 2022-10-20 · listen
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