The director of London's National Portrait Gallery receives what organisers hope will soon be seen as an “Oscar” of the art world

The painting of the striking Polynesian man, recently bought jointly by London's National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum, may travel to the South Pacific to be shown in Tahiti

The new portrait will go on show in a Covid-delayed exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London

Reviews of the revamped institution insist on calling its former building 'dusty', but that label should really be applied to the website, which is badly in need of an update

Seven portraits of British women by female Magnum photographers will enter the permanent collection of London's newly reopened gallery as it attempts to balance a historic gender disparity

Plus, William Edmondson in Philadelphia and Zinzi Minott's Windrush 75 film in London

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

The 45 portraits, cast in bronze, have been installed on the entrance to the newly restored London museum

Nicholas Cullinan shows us around the new-look museum after its three-year closure

After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements

The American artist re-examines the myth of the Wild West in her new painted textile works—and shows a fabric figure from her co-creation of the legendary "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover

The "icon of British portraiture" will be shown alternately between London and Los Angeles

The export deferral on the famed painting has been extended to 10 June, giving London’s National Portrait Gallery a few more weeks to work out a deal, possibly with the Getty

Museum is accused of “reprehensible” behaviour in allegedly allowing crisis-hit parent company Adani to greenwash its huge fossil fuel business

Refurbished museum has also announced shows of female photographers Yevonde, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron and will see the return of David Hockney

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Museum in London acquired refurbished ticket kiosk site for £3m with funds from businessman Len Blavatnik

The refurbishment is backed by a raft of sponsors including British-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik and international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills

Works on self-identity will be shown at the revamped London gallery next year

The museum has until March 2023 to stop the work leaving the UK

Phillips's masterpiece is A Humument, a 50-year recreation, redrawing and rewriting of a long-forgotten Victorian novel, that informed the artist's wider output, including an opera and his translation of Dante's Inferno

First floor of London museum to be renamed the "Blavatnik Wing" and will display 100 years of portraiture across nine galleries

Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City

Joshua Reynolds's painting of a Polynesian man who travelled to Europe is emblematic of the extraordinary meeting of European and Pacific cultures 250 years ago

If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum

The funds will cover nearly the entire cost of commissioning official portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery

Spokeswoman for the oil company says it is looking at new ways to best use its resources in order to become net-zero by 2050