National Portrait Gallery
Three to see: London
From Tacita Dean's double-header, including films of David Hockney and fermenting pears, to a Tate Modern takeover by Joan Jonas
Podcast episode 23: The death of Venice?
Salvatore Settis on the moral revival that could save Italy's sinking city, plus Tacita Dean on her three major London shows
Tacita Dean on her three major London shows
From genre fluidity to the British artist's love of analogue film
Three to see: London
From Picasso's year of masterpieces at Tate Modern to his fellow Spaniard Murillo's portraits at the National Gallery
Why visitor numbers at two of London’s major museums have plunged
Fewer blockbusters the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery meant UK audiences stayed away
Barack and Michelle Obama’s portraits unveiled in Washington
The former US president and first lady shared some personal connections with the artists, Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald
Women got the vote—now they get a voice as cultural bodies mark centenary of female suffrage
As #MeToo makes waves, UK institutions stage year-long programmes highlighting female artists
Three to see: London
From photographs of real northern soul to Lydia Ourahmane's golden teeth and trembling floor
Jamie Fobert Architects to transform London's National Portrait Gallery
Firm behind recent expansion of Tate St Ives and Kettle's Yard will lead major £35.5m development
Tacita Dean’s film of Hockney smoking bought by Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery
Acquisition heralds triptych of London shows dedicated to Dean
Story of Michael Jackson’s influence on contemporary artists to be told for first time
London’s National Portrait Gallery is to host exhibition featuring more than 40 leading artists including Andy Warhol, Isaac Julien and Faith Ringgold
The deeply educated John Singer Sargent
The painter’s portraits of his diverse circle of polymathic friends
National Portrait Gallery joins a season of shows marking the centenary of the Great War
Our pick of the exhibitions commemorating the First World War
MoMA makes a stand by acquiring video removed from display by Washington's NPG
Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly is already on display at the New York museum
This book argues that John Everett Millais’ later works deserve as much attention as his pre-Raphaelite paintings
Not as bad as he has been made out to be
National Portrait Gallery: more transparent than Tate
Commission sum disclosed for Tom Phillips, unlike the purchase of "The Upper Room"
Two Bacons may share more than an interest in portraiture
See for yourself as Sir Nathaniel Bacon and Francis Bacon go on show in London
National Portrait gallery plays host to Blair as Tate Modern passes on Labour Party's party
Due to a policy not to allow political events, the Tate declined to host Tony Blair's shindig
Television Guide: Mario Testino's marriage of glamour and individual identity, Warhol's multi-faceted career, and Philip Lorca diCorcia's submission for the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize
The Art Newspaper reviews the "Mario Testino, Diana's favourite photographer" (BBC), "Andy Warhol: the complete picture" and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2002 (Channel 4)
Women of the court of Charles II
On view at the National Portrait Gallery, London
New in Books: High culture and no clothing
Nudes with Phaidon and Tate, painted ladies with HarperCollins and the National Portrait Gallery going abroad with Thames & Hudson, Ashgate, Lawrence King, the British Museum and Cambridge University Press
Gardening and art at the National Portrait Gallery
Women’s studies blended with the media biography and botanical illustration
Collector-benefactor profile: Who owns Sri Lankan, Canadian, cricketing art—and now portraiture?
Christopher Ondaatje has only recently come to public notice with his donation of £2,750,000 to London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Pleasant and acceptable: how Pietro Annigoni came to create a second portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 1970
In 1967 the National Portrait Gallery in London did not own a portrait of the monarch—but commissioning one was to prove a challenge
Wonnacott's big week: while one painting by the artist has been sold to the Tate, another has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery
Wonnacott's portrait of John Major is on view at Agnew's
Portraiture on display: Allan Ramsay stars solo while a whole cast swaggers at the Tate
Two massive shows bring glamour and glitz to London