18 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Three artists have been shortlisted for the prestigious Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024, which makes a welcome return to the National… Read More
15 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Silent Testimony is a new display at the National Portrait Gallery, featuring eighteen large-scale portraits by Belfast-born artist, Colin Davidson.
26 March 2024 • Mark Westall
Entries are now open for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
13 January 2024 • Tabish Khan
Miniatures, moustaches, fashion filters, drawings and masterpieces.
27 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HEnpg.org.uk Instagram: @nationalportraitgallery The National Portrait Gallery has now been back for… Read More
16 November 2023 • Mark Westall
Today, the National Portrait Gallery has revealed its forward programme of exhibitions for 2024.
21 August 2023 • Mark Westall
The National Portrait Gallery has revealed the five photographers that have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2023
6 August 2023 • Mark Westall
A new Harry Styles portrait by David Hockney has been revealed today it is one of over 30 new portraits, painted at the artist’s Normandy studio between 2021 and 2022.
21 June 2023 • Mark Westall
The new National Portrait Gallery in London opens on 22nd June 2023 following the most significant redevelopment in its history,.
12 June 2023 • Mark Westall
Avant Arte has partnered with Elizabeth Peyton to make her work available to all and to raise funds for the National Portrait Gallery.
25 April 2023 • Mark Westall
The innovative collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery and Getty to jointly acquire Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai (Omai) has been successful.
6 March 2023 • Mark Westall
A number of leading artists have joined the National Portrait Gallery and Art Fund’s campaign to save Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai 1776 for the nation.
2 February 2023 • Guest
2023 is shaping up to be an exciting year for art and culture fans! Six new museums are slated to… Read More
19 June 2020 • Irene Machetti
Today we hear from Tereza Cervenova, Slovakia-born photographer, now living and working in London (UK). She received her BA in Photography from Middlesex University in 2014 and her MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018.
19 January 2020 • Tabish Khan
String Theory, Pre-Raphaelites, a black eye, Sultans, fashion and bright lights.
8 November 2019 • Mark Westall
A portrait of musician Florence Welch by photographer and director Tom Beard is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in their New Acquisitions exhibition.
7 October 2019 • Tabish Khan
Heston Blumenthal’s pubic hair, Da Vinci, Jews, the top deck of a bus, pillars, diamonds and wrinkles.
25 August 2019 • Tabish Khan
Black pioneers, a creepy clown, a spinning car, a pile of ears and a giant spider.
24 July 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
The National Portrait Gallery’s mixture of history, people and art can is currently at its strongest. The pay-for exhibition, of Cindy Sherman, is a convincing presentation of 40 years of self-images which includes some fascinating rarely-seen early works and new-to-Britain late works as well as her most seminal series, including all 70 ‘screen tests’.
20 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Brexit Britain, night time, Milton Keynes, reggae, broken cities, encounters and crowd barriers.
12 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Dalston, miniatures, Rembrandt, flooding, nature, colour and navigation.
14 January 2019 • Tabish Khan
This week art exhibitions include A giant hare, torture, black power, legs, brothers, textiles and dark nudes.
6 January 2019 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 art exhibitions to see this week include Polyamory, Impressionism, a Porsche, drum majorettes, umbrellas, eruption and equality.
7 October 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 includes:!Crotch grabs, an estate agent, towers, a melting collector, lightning, yoga and floating ships.
