Antony Williams Wins NPG’s Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024
Antony Williams has been awarded the prestigious Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award by the National Portrait Gallery
12 July 2024
National Portrait Gallery
Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024
The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award makes a welcome return to the National Portrait Gallery for 2024.
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
The exhibition presents a study of the lives and afterlives of the six women who married Henry VIII.
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman Photographic Storytelling – Sue Hubbard
As much seems to divide the photographers Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman as unites them.
2 April 2024
Reframing The Black Figure – National Portrait Gallery – Albertina Campbell
Five years ago, curator and writer Ekow Eshun embarked on a mission to formulate a new narrative from the Black perspective for a 21st-century audience.
12 March 2024
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure – National Portrait Gallery
In a thought-provoking exploration of contemporary Black Art, Ekow Eshun, curator of “The Time Is Always Now,” emphasises the profound shift…
7 March 2024
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
Showcasing more than 160 rare vintage prints, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In spans the career of both artists
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
A major study of the Black figure – and its representation in contemporary art.
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
Nicholas Cullinan Visionary Director of The National Portrait Gallery Speaks To Nico Kos Earle – Artlyst Exclusive
Since 2020, Nicholas Cullinan has overseen an acclaimed £41.3m renovation, which reopened on time and on budget, no mean feat…. Read More
8 January 2024
Twelve London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2023
Several exciting art exhibitions will open in London’s major museums and galleries this Autumn.
22 August 2023
Russell Tovey Launches Art of London’s Summer Season 2023
Russell Tovey launches ‘Art of London’s Summer Season 2023: The Art of Entertainment’, some of the National Portrait Gallery…
27 July 2023
Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963–64 Eyes of the Storm
An unprecedented exhibition, revealing – for the first time – extraordinary photographs taken by Paul McCartney.
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday and Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
Yevonde: Life and Colour
An exploration of the life and career of Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday and Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
Tracey Emin Creates Every Women Bronze Doors For NPG Relaunch
Forty-five portraits that “represent every woman” cover the three doors that now form the entrance to the National Portrait Gallery.
20 June 2023
National Portrait Gallery To Reopen With Sir Paul McCartney Photo Exhibition
Sir Paul’s private and personal photos will be displayed for the first time when the National Portrait Gallery reopens to visitors
30 March 2023
Bored Ape Hypesters Sued For Millions – Tate Britain’s ‘Racist’ Mural Back On Show Next Autumn – National Portrait Gallery To Reopen 22 June
Bored Ape Hypesters Sued For Millions – Tate Britain’s ‘Racist’ Mural Back On Show – National Portrait Gallery To Reopen 22 June
15 December 2022
BP Portrait Award 2020
Selected from 1,981 entries by artists from 69 countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2020 represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting.
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David Hockney: Two Major Shows Open In London – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its long sleep – three years with its doors firmly shut – it is not surprising to find it playing host to a major show of work by David Hockney.
25 February 2020
Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things
Closed until further notice
This major new exhibition explores the extravagant world of the glamorous and stylish ‘Bright Young Things’ of the twenties and thirties, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton.
daily 10.00 – 18.00/ Friday until 21.00
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years.
Open daily 10:00-18:00 Friday until 21:00
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
This major exhibition is the first-ever to focus on the untold story of the women of Pre-Raphaelite art.
Open daily 10:00-18:00 Friday Lates until 21:00
Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels
Created in close collaboration with the artist, Elizabeth Peyton: Aire and Angels, explores the development of Peyton’s unique art from the 1990s to the present day.
Open daily 10:00-18:00 Friday Lates until 21:00
Cindy Sherman NPG Retrospective A Major Blockbuster – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Cindy Sherman retrospective just opened at the National Portrait Gallery is a major blockbuster, illustrating all aspects of a very prolific career.
27 June 2019
BP Portrait Award 2019
The annual BP Portrait Award exhibition.
Open daily 10:00-18:00 Friday Lates until 21:00
Cindy Sherman
A major new retrospective of works by leading contemporary artist Cindy Sherman.
Open daily 10:00-18:00 Friday Lates until 21:00
National Portrait Gallery Turns Down £1m Sackler OxyContin Donation
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is the first high profile institution to turn down a £1m grant from the Sackler Trust, over the controversy connected to the growing global OxyContin, drug crisis.
19 March 2019
Only Human: Martin Parr
This major new exhibition brings together works by one of Britain’s best-known and most widely celebrated photographers, Martin Parr.
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00/ Fridays until 21.00
Thomas Gainsborough: A Thirst For Visible Originality – Edward Lucie-Smith
After various adventures away from its traditional subject-matter – the recent Michael Jackson show being a case in point, the National Portrait Gallery returns to familiar territory with a show devoted to Thomas Gainsborough, by general consensus one of the most brilliant portrait painters to have worked in Britain. Native-born into the bargain, unlike his predecessors Holbein and Van Dyck.
27 December 2018
Aretha Franklin’s Life Celebrated At National Portrait Gallery Washington
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington is to celebrate the life and work of the iconic singer and musician Aretha Franklin.
18 August 2018
National Portrait Gallery To Exhibit Works Regionally Associated With Sitters
The National Portrait Gallery, London has announced Coming Home, a simple but powerful idea that will see the NPG lend 50 of their most beloved portraits to places across the country closely associated with that of the sitters.
25 July 2018
The Afterlife Of Michael Jackson In Pictures – Edward Lucie-Smith
When I first heard that the National Portrait Gallery here in London was planning to do an exhibition about Michael Jackson, the very famous but ultimately doomed African American pop star,
28 June 2018
BP Portrait Award 2018
The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait painting competition in the world and represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting.
daily 10-6 Fridays until 9pm