National Portrait Gallery
Nicholas Cullinan wins Critics' Circle Visual Arts Award
The director of London's National Portrait Gallery receives what organisers hope will soon be seen as an “Oscar” of the art world
Joshua Reynolds’s 'Portrait of Mai' could visit its Polynesian homeland
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
When Harry met Hockney—pop idol is painted by the Bradford-born artist
The new portrait will go on show in a Covid-delayed exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London
As London's National Portrait Gallery reopens, we must rethink dusty prejudices
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
Female forward: National Portrait Gallery announces women-led partnership with Magnum Photos
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
London's National Portrait Gallery's revamp: the review
Plus, William Edmondson in Philadelphia and Zinzi Minott's Windrush 75 film in London
Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald
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
Gender balance redressed as Tracey Emin creates new 'every woman' front doors for the National Portrait Gallery
The 45 portraits, cast in bronze, have been installed on the entrance to the newly restored London museum
A director's tour of the newly renovated National Portrait Gallery in London
Nicholas Cullinan shows us around the new-look museum after its three-year closure
Stormzy, Doreen Lawrence and Lucy Bronze: National Portrait Gallery reopens with a focus on the new faces of Britain
After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population
National Portrait Gallery should become a dispersed museum
The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements
The two faces of Nick Serota: Steve McQueen's portrait of Arts Council supremo will go on show at London's National Portrait Gallery
Jann Haworth, Pop Art pioneer, discovers a 'soft and warm' sensibility in response to changes brought by the global pandemic
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
Joshua Reynolds’s 'Portrait of Mai'—previously known as Omai—to be jointly acquired by the National Portrait Gallery and Getty Museum
The "icon of British portraiture" will be shown alternately between London and Los Angeles
Arts minister extends export ban (again) to help save Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai
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
Critics line up to condemn Science Museum’s sponsorship deal with Adani Green Energy
Museum is accused of “reprehensible” behaviour in allegedly allowing crisis-hit parent company Adani to greenwash its huge fossil fuel business
Show of unseen Paul McCartney photographs—taken at the height of Beatlemania—will help relaunch London’s National Portrait Gallery
Refurbished museum has also announced shows of female photographers Yevonde, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron and will see the return of David Hockney
Acquisitions round-up: two London museums jointly purchase a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
New exhibition space! National Portrait Gallery buys former Victorian public lavatory
Museum in London acquired refurbished ticket kiosk site for £3m with funds from businessman Len Blavatnik
London's National Portrait Gallery to reopen its doors in June 2023 after three-year closure
The refurbishment is backed by a raft of sponsors including British-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik and international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills
England footballer Raheem Sterling launches art project with National Portrait Gallery
Works on self-identity will be shown at the revamped London gallery next year
National Portrait Gallery in London has raised half the £50m required to acquire Joshua Reynolds's Omai
The museum has until March 2023 to stop the work leaving the UK
British artist-polymath Tom Phillips—portrait painter, composer and poet—has died, aged 85
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
London's National Portrait Gallery receives £10m donation from Leonard Blavatnik
First floor of London museum to be renamed the "Blavatnik Wing" and will display 100 years of portraiture across nine galleries
Brazil turns 200—and its National Museum rises from the ashes
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
If the National Portrait Gallery buys the £50m Portrait of Omai, it would be wonderful to loan it to Tahiti for a period
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
The greatest portrait by one of the finest British artists: London's National Portrait Gallery aims to raise £50m to buy Reynolds's Omai
If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum
Donald Trump’s political action committee gives Smithsonian $650,000 to pay for presidential portrait commission
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
National Portrait Gallery in London ends BP sponsorship after 30 years
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