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
National Gallery
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)
Winslow Homer: Beyond The Sea – National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Homer is an artist that, although a household name in America, is entirely unrepresented in UK public collections.
24 September 2022
Ten London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2022
London comes into its own in Autumn with the opening of a whole array of exciting exhibitions, fairs and auctions. Artlyst has put together a list of ten art exhibitions presented in our world-class galleries and museums.
31 August 2022
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives – The Credit Suisse Exhibition
This landmark exhibition is being staged by the National Gallery to mark the centenary of the birth of the major 20th-century artist Lucian Freud (1922–2011.)
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
For the first time in the UK, the National Gallery presents an overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Picasso Ingres: Face to Face
For the first time, Picasso’s ‘Woman with a Book’ (1932) from the Norton Simon Museum, California, will be brought together with the painting that inspired it, ‘Madame Moitessier’ by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Open daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Raphael The Human And Divine – National Gallery – Rev Jonathan Evens
Raphael’s brief career shaped the course of Western culture like no other artist; this was so whether his work was affirmed or his influence rejected.
11 April 2022
Raphael Exhibition At National Gallery Explores His Entire Career
Having been postponed due to the Covid 19 pandemic and originally planned to mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death in 2020, the National Gallery will finally unveil The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Raphael.
29 March 2022
Ali Cherri: Artist in Residence National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Ali Cherri, as an artist growing up in Lebanon during the Civil War, embodying traumatic experiences of catastrophe and violence
23 March 2022
Raphael: The Credit Suisse Exhibition
This exhibition, one of the first-ever to explore Raphael’s complete career, looks at his celebrated paintings and drawings as well as his work in architecture, poetry, and design for sculpture, tapestry and prints.
Open daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Russian Raphael Painting Withdrawn From London Show – Jeff Koons Loses Another Court Battle – Metropolitan Museum To Deaccess $30m Picasso Bronze
One of the centrepieces of the National Galleries’ long-awaited Raphael exhibition has been withdrawn due to the escalating war in… Read More
11 March 2022
Damien Hirst Earns $25m With His NFT Edition – Art Basel Gazumps FIAC Taking Grand Palais Slot – Gainsborough’s Blue Boy Returns To London
Damien Hirst Earns $25m With His NFT Edition – Art Basel Gazumps FIAC Taking Grand Palais Slot – Gainsborough’s Blue Boy Returns To London
26 January 2022
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy
On the centenary of its last public appearance in the UK, The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough returns to the National Gallery.
daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm
Winslow Homer To Feature In New National Gallery Exhibition
The New England artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910), will have his first major UK show at London’s National Gallery. Homer is… Read More
12 January 2022
Albrecht Dürer Travels Of A Renaissance Artist – National Gallery London – Revd Jonathan Evens
Albrecht Dürer, himself, lived in Nuremberg throughout his life but made several significant European journeys.
11 December 2021
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery The Prelude
Kehinde Wiley is an American artist best known for his portraits that render people of colour in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings.
Open daily 10am–6pm and Friday until 9pm