National Portrait Gallery reveals major exhibitions for 2024.
16 November 2023 • Mark Westall
Today, the National Portrait Gallery has revealed its forward programme of exhibitions for 2024.
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National Portrait Gallery reveals shortlist for Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023
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
New Harry Styles portrait by David Hockney revealed in lead up to new exhibition at NPG.
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.
National Portrait Gallery opens following the most significant redevelopment in its history
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,.
Avant Arte & Elizabeth Peyton partner-up for National Portrait Gallery
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.
Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai (Omai) jointly acquired by National Portrait Gallery & Getty
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.
Leading artists join campaign to save Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai.
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.
9 Highly Anticipated Museum Openings in 2023
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
10 Questions from Isolation… with Tereza Cervenova
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.
The Top 6 Exhibitions to see in London in late January
19 January 2020 • Tabish Khan
String Theory, Pre-Raphaelites, a black eye, Sultans, fashion and bright lights.
Tom Beard Portrait of Florence Welch Goes on Permanent Display at National Portrait Gallery
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.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London after Frieze week
7 October 2019 • Tabish Khan
Heston Blumenthal’s pubic hair, Da Vinci, Jews, the top deck of a bus, pillars, diamonds and wrinkles.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in September
25 August 2019 • Tabish Khan
Black pioneers, a creepy clown, a spinning car, a pile of ears and a giant spider.
Portrait of the NPG
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’.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in May
20 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Brexit Britain, night time, Milton Keynes, reggae, broken cities, encounters and crowd barriers.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in May
12 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Dalston, miniatures, Rembrandt, flooding, nature, colour and navigation.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London right now
14 January 2019 • Tabish Khan
This week art exhibitions include A giant hare, torture, black power, legs, brothers, textiles and dark nudes.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in January 2019
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.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
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.
My week in the art world – A still life breathes
21 June 2018 • Staff
One of the works offered by Niels Borch Jensen Gallery that struck me was Tacita Dean’s Quarantania (2018) – a stunning work on seven panels depicting a mountain against a rusty pink graduated sky, reminiscent of Ed Ruscha.
My week in the art world – Michelangelo Pistoletto and Lee Ufan
25 February 2018 • Staff
This Thursday London was ripe with previews. One of the most exciting was the opening of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Scaffali at Simon Lee. I had seen the same works at Simon Lee New York last November but had missed the exciting energy an opening charges pieces with.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
11 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise… Read More
The Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
21 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
Not 5 but 9 exhibitions to catch this week
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask at National Portrait Gallery
7 April 2017 • Lee Sharrock
This stunning exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery brings together two seemingly disparate female artists, their careers divided by more than seven decades, but with rather more in common aesthetically and philosophically than it would first appear.
