Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, responds to criticism about the museum's three-year closure

From Elizabeth Peyton's historically contextualised portraits to a jarring installation on queer existence

The London museum will close between 2020 and 2023, but the announcement was buried in the fourth paragraph of a press release

Demonstrators demand that V&A director Tristram Hunt drops Sackler name

Museums officials say that the association with the oil company is at odds with a "responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency"

Museum plans to send 300 portraits a year on tour around the country during £35.5m redevelopment

The US artist on his two-day performance in Louisiana and the role of women in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Produced in association with Bonhams

Washington's National Portrait Gallery will display finalists’ work in a contest that helped to vault the reputation of Amy Sherald

In her new solo show at London's National Portrait Gallery, the artist connects the past with the present

We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate

The six-storey 2,400 sq ft painting depicts an empowered black teenager

Exhibition will explore the influence of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and how it all began with a humble family album

Gary Hume says funding for the arts is 'outweighed by the need to act urgently on the climate crisis'

London's National Portrait Gallery director on the way cultural institutions engage audiences and measure success

Plus, Nan Goldin's show at the National Portrait Gallery is expected to go ahead after the trust and London museum decided not to proceed with a £1m grant

Mutual decision comes amid controversy over trust's connection to Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, a prescription painkiller linked to the opioid crisis

On The Art Newspaper podcast, we zoom into a passionate expression of desire in a miniature at the National Portrait Gallery

From exquisite Elizabethan portrait miniatures at the National Portrait Gallery to Franz West's playful sculptures at Tate Modern

We talk to the British artist as he shows his sculptures with ancient works in the Florentine museum, and we zoom in on the tiny art works that are the subject of a major show London's National Portrait Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

From the dazzling dresses of Dior at the V&A to the grim reality of how architecture can affect your health at the Wellcome Collection

The people, places and things that had a year to remember—or to forget

From Thomas Gainsborough's family portraits—including his pet dogs—at the National Portrait Gallery to "sexual warfare" at Goldsmiths CCA

The painting, which took the artist less than an hour to paint, was restored for the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition opening in London this week

From a “once in a lifetime” show of Henry Walpole's reunited treasures to a final chance to see a Michael Jackson thriller at the National Portrait Gallery

Though not as dire as first thought, visitor figures for the museum's contemporary shows have still been poor

“Human error” by Ipsos Retail Performance blamed for museum’s disastrous recent visitor numbers

Michael Jackson is a thrilling muse at the National Portrait Gallery, while ancient Egypt is given a modern twist at the British Museum