Leading artists join campaign to save Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai.
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.
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9 Highly Anticipated Museum Openings in 2023
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
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
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
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
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
Black pioneers, a creepy clown, a spinning car, a pile of ears and a giant spider.
Portrait of the NPG
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
Brexit Britain, night time, Milton Keynes, reggae, broken cities, encounters and crowd barriers.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London in May
Dalston, miniatures, Rembrandt, flooding, nature, colour and navigation.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London right now
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
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
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
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
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
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
Not 5 but 9 exhibitions to catch this week
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask at National Portrait Gallery
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.
Sandy Nairne portrait at NPG is by American artist Chuck Close
Portrait of former director of National Portrait Gallery will be first big work by Close to enter public collection in UK
Picasso Portraits at National Portrait Gallery
During what is now commonly referred to as ‘Frieze Week’ – such is the power of the art fair behemoth that is Frieze – the National Portrait Gallery have unveiled “Picasso Portraits”, and proven that the Modern Masters beat the young pretenders to the art world throne hands down.
William Eggleston Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
You don’t think of William Eggleston as a portrait photographer. He is known for his colour shots of the everyday American South in the 60s and 70s – slow-time smalltown scenes with nothing in particular happening, buildings and signage, fields beyond the roadside. But..
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week.
Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London during Christmas
Art Critic Tabish chooses five art exhibitions to keep you stimulated over the Christmas period ..
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
This week’s top 5 features volcanic lightning, refugees, Calder, coloured smoke and Indians of African descent.