
REVIEW: Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery
29 July 2026 • Lee Sharrock
The National Portrait Gallery looks beyond Marilyn Monroe’s screen image to reveal the beauty, vulnerability and tragedy behind the Hollywood icon.

29 July 2026 • Lee Sharrock
The National Portrait Gallery looks beyond Marilyn Monroe’s screen image to reveal the beauty, vulnerability and tragedy behind the Hollywood icon.

30 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Pallant House Gallery has announced a unique response to creativity during the coronavirus pandemic. The Gallery has commissioned a model art gallery that will feature original miniature artworks from over 30 leading contemporary British artists

22 July 2019 • Mark Westall
New Order: Art, Product, Image 1976-1995 is a group exhibition selected by Michael Bracewell that surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society between 1976 and 1995.

4 January 2019 • Mark Westall
The release of 100 white helium-filled balloons will mark the opening of Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band as a tribute to the anniversary of the You Are Here opening

3 May 2018 • Mark Westall
Internationally acclaimed artists Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Robert Gober, Antony Gormley, Roni Horn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Taryn Simon, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rachel Whiteread are among the 37 artists who have given works to create a major new fund ARTISTS FOR ARTANGEL.

10 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Richard Hamilton, The State,1993 Tate, London 2014 © The Estate of Richard Hamilton, DACS 2014 (Part of Jane and Louise… Read More

7 February 2015 • Staff
There is a great eclectic exhibition at Pace London titled ‘A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense’that takes as inspiration the character and career of celebrated art dealer and pioneer, Robert Fraser, curated by Brian Clarke.


26 December 2014 • Staff
Fifteen years ago a Soho warehouse hosted 50 art events in 50 weeks. Writers, architects and even milliners exhibited alongside both famous, and unknown, artists. As the project is revived for 2015, Nicholas Wroe talks to its curators about capturing the spirit of the times

22 April 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.

3 March 2014 • Staff
The prolific career of Richard Hamilton, Britain’s pioneer of ‘pop’, is currently on show, being celebrated in style, as both the ICA and Tate Modern host exhibitions dedicated to the life, triumphs and innovations of one of the best of British art.

19 February 2014 • Mark Westall
ART TALK: Richard Hamilton, Politics and Art in the 1980s

18 February 2014 • Mark Westall
In Britain, Pop-Art had a unique impact on publishing, fashion, music, TV, and cinema. Perhaps it was the dispersal over the various media that lessened the effect that Pop Art had on Fine Art. But we did do it first, and we did some of it very well indeed. So celebrate it and as they said without irony in the 60’s: Buy British

13 February 2014 • Mark Westall
ART OPENING: Richard Hamilton Word and Image, Prints 1963-2007 @AlanCristea

5 February 2014 • Mark Westall
Kimberley will attempt to combine her knowledge into contrasting aspects of artistic studies: History of Art and Contemporary Art and Theory.
20 November 2013 • Mark Westall
Image credit:Richard Hamilton Installation view of Man, Machine and Motion at the ICA, Dover Street, 1955 The 2014 programme for… Read More

30 June 2013 • VC Maurer
Artists such as Damien Hirst, Richard Hamilton, John Squire and Corina Spencer collaboratively attempt to defamiliarise the iconic, deflate the mythological, and disrupt the idolatry of celebrity.

21 April 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate highlights for the 2014 programme will include major exhibitions from: Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, JMW Turner, Richard Hamilton and Kazimir Malevich.

5 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The Glam era of the early 1970s is to be critically evaluated for the first time in an ambitious new exhibition at Tate Liverpool.

30 November 2012 • Mark Westall
WIN: About Freedom Not Genius a book about Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection.
15 May 2012 • Mark Westall
The father of pop art – who is to be the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the National Gallery – also rediscovered and popularised the once-neglected work of Marcel Duchamp

6 April 2012 • Mark Westall
Simon Denny, Those who don’t change will be switched off, 2012. Digital collage from transmission switchover advertising Remote Control surveys… Read More
7 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Richard Hamilton Film Screening
21 December 2011 • Mark Westall
A new display at the National Portrait Gallery plays tribute to the life and career of artist Richard Hamilton, who died earlier this year.