For the first time, revolutionary early paintings by the British modernist artist David Bomberg (1890–1957) will be displayed alongside National Gallery pictures that had a great influence on him.
Open daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm (Closed 1 January and 24—26 December)
NOW EXTENDED TO 26 JANUARY – The Gallery becomes a painting studio, an imagined chapel and a room-sized experiment in this immersive exhibition that leads you through the mind of Leonardo da Vinci to explore his masterpiece, ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’.
Open daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm
Gauguin both is and isn’t a hero for our time. In one sense it’s brave of the National Gallery to mount a big show of his work in the /MeToo era. It’s hard to think of any artist, of the immediately Pre-Modern or Early Modern epochs, who behaved worse to women.
4 October 2019
The first-ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin.
Open daily 10am–6pm Friday until 9pm
Once again the National Gallery offers a small, free, finely crafted show devoted to an Old Master painter that few people will know much – or indeed – anything about. In this case, to works by Bartolome Bermejo (c.1440-c. 1501).
15 June 2019
From the glimmer of a jewel to the sheen of armour, Bermejo’s ability to capture light, colours and textures in oil painting was unparalleled in 15th-century Spain.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not far away at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill. It features just one artist, rather than a series of well-known names.
16 April 2019
Dame Jillian Sackler, third wife of the late Arthur Sackler has defended her branch of the family’s philanthropic donations with a statement to the Washington Post, outlining that her side of the family has never participated in the manufacture of OxyContin or benefited from money generated by Purdue Pharma, which is wholly owned by the other side of the Sackler family.
15 April 2019
Two shows have just opened at major London institutions –Sorolla at the National Gallery and Mike Nelson at Tate Britain. Different as they are, they both give one cause to reflect on the current situation in British art. Indeed, about what is happening to British culture in general.
27 March 2019
See new work by Sean Scully inspired by the National Gallery Collection and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘The Evening Star’.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
Sometimes the dear old National Gallery here in London comes up with a nice surprise. Their new one-room, free entry exhibition is devoted to the work of the French painter Louis-Leopold Boilly, who lived from 1761 to 1845
9 March 2019
The first UK exhibition of Spain’s Impressionist, Sorolla, in over a century.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
Visitors to the National Gallery are in for a treat as they will be able to view a new acquisition… Read More
20 February 2019
A new large-scale work by Bridget Riley in Annenberg Court of the National Gallery.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
How times have changed! And how much they haven’t! A small but telling display of work by the celebrated Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer, now on view at the National Gallery, invites both comparison and cogitation.
17 December 2018
One of the world’s best-known animal paintings, Edwin Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’, returns to the National Gallery for the first time since 1851.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
Coinciding with the exhibition Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen, this display of Scottish artist Rachel Maclean’s 2012 film ‘The Lion and The Unicorn’ shines an irreverent light on Scottish-English relationships.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
Uncover the symbolism and psychological depth of Lotto’s Renaissance portraits.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
A tale of two artists and brothers-in-law, ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ tells a story of art, family, rivalry, and personality.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
Though we have plenty of experience of and access to American art here in Britain, this means chiefly American art from the 20th century.
20 June 2018
Film is Tacita Dean’s medium. Not that catch-all of so many contemporary artists, video, but analogue film with all its implicit nostalgia and history. Although Tacita Dean emerged in the 90s, at the height of conceptualism, she’s always been essentially a Romantic.
17 March 2018
See the ‘Father of Impressionism’ in an entirely new way, in the first exhibition devoted to Monet’s relationship with architecture
Daily 10am-6pm Friday 10am-9pm
Explore still life through the lens of Tacita Dean, one of the genre’s leading contemporary practitioners
Daily 10am-6pm Friday 10am-9pm
One of the most celebrated painters of the Spanish Golden Age, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is well known for his religious paintings and his extraordinary depictions of street children. He was also an ingenious portraitist, although this aspect of his oeuvre is less studied.
Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm
In a way, it’s a bit of surprise to find the Pre-Raphs, even some of the grander ones, on view at the National Gallery.
10 November 2017
The Monochrome show at the National Gallery has gained less coverage and generated much less enthusiasm that the current Living Gods show at the British Museum.
7 November 2017
Monochrome: Painting in Black And White is an extraordinary new show at the National Gallery in London.
26 October 2017
London’s National Gallery has announced that the decision concerning their Portrait of Greta Moll by Henri Matisse is a welcomed solution to the high-profile case.
30 September 2017
Degas often seems like the odd man out, among the leading artists of the Impressionist Movement.
28 September 2017
Bellotto masterpiece, ‘The Fortress of Königstein from the North’, which was due to be exported from Britain, has been saved for the nation and goes on display in Trafalgar Square today (Tuesday 22 August 2017).
22 August 2017
The National Gallery, this Autumn goes monochrome on a journey through a world of shadow and light.
16 August 2017
Explore the tradition of painting in black and white from its beginnings in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into the 21st century.
Daily 10am – 6pm, 10am – 9pm Fridays
