Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome
This exhibition explores the creation of Parmigianino’s ‘The Madonna and Child with Saints’, also known as ‘The Vision of Saint Jerome’
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
National Gallery
National Gallery Security To Be Updated In Light Of Attacks
Improved Security Measures at the National Gallery will take effect immediately following Just Stop Oil and pro-Palestinian protests…
17 October 2024
National Gallery: Picasso Targeted By Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators
A Picasso painting at London’s National Gallery became the focus of a protest by pro-Palestinian activists….
10 October 2024
Just Stop Oil Targets Van Gogh Exhibition At National Gallery
Just Stop Oil Activists have targeted the National Gallery’s Van Gogh ‘Poets and Lovers’ exhibition with another vandalistic climate protest.
27 September 2024
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers – A Critical View – Mariella Guzzoni
These were the words Vincent van Gogh sent to his brother Theo from Arles on 18 September 1888. He had arrived in Provence just seven months earlier and, in that brief span…
20 September 2024
Vincent van Gogh Exhibition Marks 200th Anniversary Of National Gallery
The National Gallery in London is celebrating its 200th anniversary with a landmark exhibition of Vincent van Gogh’s work…
11 September 2024
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
Get ready to be amazed by Van Gogh’s breathtaking paintings at a once-in-a-century exhibition.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Ten Unmissable London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2024 – Artlyst
Autumn will bring significant exhibitions to the major museums and galleries in London.
28 August 2024
Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look
This very personal show brings together two Hockney paintings, one showing his mother and father and the other depicting his friend, curator Henry Geldzahler.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
The Art Diary August 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
August’s diary highlights a range of shows which engage with art as a form of storytelling by revealing hidden histories and telling lost stories.
6 August 2024
Discover Degas & Miss La La
Degas’s ‘Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando’ takes centre stage in this exhibition that sheds light on this work with newly discovered information about the painting and its sitter.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
National Gallery Launches Ambitious Bicentenary Plans With Lightshow
The National Gallery has illuminated its central London elevation with a dazzling light show, marking a momentous occasion in its history—the bicentenary of its founding…
13 May 2024
The Last Caravaggio
Caravaggio’s last painting, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610, Gallerie d’Italia, Naples), is coming to London for the first time in 20 years.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
The Last Caravaggio National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, as both a revolutionary artist and a violent individual in a violent age, divides eras and opinions.
22 April 2024
Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed
Discover an overlooked Renaissance great in the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Francesco Pesellino (c.1422–1457).
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Paula Rego And Lord Harries Respond To Art And Religion – Rev Jonathan Evens
Paula Rego and Richard Harries respond to the Western tradition of art and religion in different ways.
5 September 2023
Twelve London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2023
Several exciting art exhibitions will open in London’s major museums and galleries this Autumn.
22 August 2023
Frans Hals: The Credit Suisse Exhibition
This is exhibition, the first major retrospective of Frans Hals in more than thirty years,
Open daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm
Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden
Explore the relationship between Dame Paula Rego’s monumental painting and the 15th-century altarpiece and National Gallery staff that inspired it.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Saint Francis Of Assisi A Timely Exhibition – National Gallery – Rev Jonathan Evens
The National Gallery’s Saint Francis of Assisi exhibition explores how Saint Francis captured the imagination of artists, how his image has evolved over centuries.
10 May 2023
Saint Francis of Assisi
Presenting the art and imagery of Saint Francis (1182–1226) from the 13th century to today, this exhibition looks at why this saint is a figure of enormous relevance to our time.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty & Satire In The Renaissance National Gallery – David Berridge
My starting hunch is that this is a man in drag, which might leave the breasts unexplained. They could be a man’s chest pushed up, then exaggerated a bit.
13 April 2023
Museum Visitor Figures Bounce Back Following Disruptive COVID Pandemic
Following the uncertainty and disruption caused by lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gallerygoers are finally returning to exhibitions at major museums worldwide.
28 March 2023
Religion and Spirituality in Post Impressionism National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the period in modern art from the last Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886 to the eve of the First World War in 1914. In the words of co-curator MaryAnne Stevens.
26 March 2023
The Art Diary March 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
Nalini Malani’s work weaves together source materials drawn from different media and cultures in order to connect contemporary issues with history
12 March 2023
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
Explore a period of great upheaval when artists broke with established tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and the 21st centuries.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance
This exhibition looks again at one of the best-known faces in the National Gallery: Quinten Massys’s 16th-century depiction of an old woman, a painting known as ‘The Ugly Duchess’.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Surveying New Exhibitions With A Spiritual Twist January 2023 Art Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Surveying current and upcoming exhibitions at the turn of the year provides evidence of the breadth and depth of the past and present engagement between art and spirituality.
4 January 2023
Winslow Homer: American Passage An Interview With Biographer Bill Cross
The author of the biography Winslow Homer: American Passage, Bill Cross, is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums.
4 December 2022
Lucian Freud And His Circle Surveyed In Two London Exhibitions
A noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963
1 December 2022
Turner on Tour
For the first time in a century, two ground-breaking paintings by Turner are coming home for a special exhibition.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès
‘Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès’ is the first in a series of exhibitions that look at a single painting from fresh and unexpected perspectives.
0am–6pm and Friday until 9pm (Closed 24–26 December and 1 January)