5 May 2025 • Mark Westall
With the Virgin and Child at its centre, this painting also depicts two saints, two playful angels, a bawdy scene with a naughty child on one of the column capitals and a magnificent slobbering dragon.
3 August 2024 • Tabish Khan
Colonialism, children, denim, design and the circus.
5 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Part of NG200: 200 years of the National Gallery.
8 March 2024 • Tabish Khan
Bottle tops, consumerism, Hello Kitty, takeaway boxes and Goliath.
21 October 2023 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his top 5 art exhibitions to see in late October
6 October 2023 • Mark Westall
To mark its 200th anniversary the National Gallery will stage a major exhibition of the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh in Autumn 2024.
4 September 2023 • Mark Westall
The National Gallery today begins the search for a network of 200 UK-based digital creators to join in with the upcoming Bicentenary celebration NG200 along with social media communities around the world.
30 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The National Gallery… it sounds pretty comprehensive, though there’s no sculpture (where’s that national gallery?) and a more accurate title would be something like ‘The National Gallery of European Paintings by Men, 1260 – 1920’, with hardly anything from other continents and just 0.5% by women.
26 March 2023 • Mark Westall
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance is now open in the National Gallery.
8 January 2023 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite top 5 exhibitions to see in museums to kick start 2023. Each one comes with a… Read More
10 July 2022 • Tabish Khan
Raphael, the climate, Stonehenge, flowers and the news in a museum-fest of a top 5.
31 March 2022 • Lee Sharrock
An epic new art documentary directed by Tim Yip with creative producers Meihui Liu and Maryam Eisler was premiered at… Read More
25 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Artemisia is temporarily closed but is reopening next week on Wednesday 2nd December running to 24th January 2021.
5 March 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s easy enough to ignore the genre of portrait painting in the age of the camera, but the best examples do plenty apart from that. David Hockney carries on the tradition in his new show at the National Portrait Gallery, but it isn’t hard to find interesting portraits on elsewhere. Here are three…
19 October 2019 • Irene Machetti
London Art Week to hold its third Winter edition this December (Sunday 1 – Friday 6). Exhibiting across Mayfair and St James’s, some 35 specialist galleries and auction houses will stage special exhibitions and talks.
30 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
Pink columns, powerful words, auditory hallucinations, a feather, naked bodies, sharks and sunsets.
14 January 2019 • Tabish Khan
This week art exhibitions include A giant hare, torture, black power, legs, brothers, textiles and dark nudes.
11 February 2018 • Tabish Khan
Turn black and white, cactus seduction, a pussyhat, witchcraft, a palaeontology dig, tar and suspended by the tongue.
21 January 2018 • Tabish Khan
Basquiat, a giant flag, a spaceship, Renaissance masters, Moomins, embroidery and lovely lights.
22 August 2017 • Staff
Weaving Magic (2014- 2017) at the National Gallery aims to place Ofili in a tradition of tapestry design represented in the same building by no less than Goya & Rubens
29 June 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
A spectacular gathering of Dutch flower painting in Room 1 of the National Gallery raises several questions.
7 March 2016 • Syndicate
Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
6 January 2016 • Mark Westall
Celebrated portrait exhibition is in its final week but a feature-length film will leave Xavier Bray with a permanent record of his ‘obsession’
21 December 2015 • Tabish Khan
Art Critic Tabish chooses five art exhibitions to keep you stimulated over the Christmas period ..
