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
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National Portrait Gallery Severs Sponsorship With BP
The National Portrait Gallery has announced the end of its partnership with bp. The London Gallery confirmed that they would not… Read More
22 February 2022
Nan Goldin and Dr Nicholas Cullinan In Conversation NPG – David Buckley
To coincide with her major exhibition “Sirens” at the Marian Goodman Gallery, Nan Goldin was welcomed by a full-house audience at the National Portrait Gallery.
22 November 2019
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2019 Returns To NPG – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize has come round once again, just as the announcement went out that the NPG will very soon close its doors for a much-needed update, and won’t be accessible again for three years. It’s hard to be entirely regretful about the hiatus.
8 November 2019
NPG Unveil Frances Segelman Sculpture Of Holocaust Survivor Sir Ben Helfgott
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled the Gallery’s acquisition of a bronze sculpture of Holocaust Survivor Sir Ben Helfgott, Honorary President of Yad Vashem UK Foundation, by Royal sculptor Frances Segelman (Lady Petchey).
20 October 2019
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Re-evaluated – Edward Lucie-Smith
All too often, when there is a sudden enthusiasm for a particular cause, those promoting it achieve the opposite of what they intend. This is the case with the exhibition entitled Pre-Raphaelite Women, which has just opened at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
17 October 2019
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
Phyllida Barlow vs Elizabethan Treasures – Edward Lucie-Smith
Phyllida Barlow has long been one of the heroines of the professional contemporary art establishment here in Britain
21 February 2019
BP Portrait Award 2018 Following No Particular Path – Edward Lucie-Smith
The BP Portrait Award 2018 currently at the National Portrait Gallery offers interesting parallels with the London Open 2018 on view at Whitechapel.
19 August 2018
Cindy Sherman: Major UK Retrospective Announced By NPG
Cindy Sherman’s groundbreaking series, Untitled Film Stills, 1977-80, is to go on public display for the first time in the UK, in a major new retrospective of the artist’s work at the National Portrait Gallery
31 July 2018
Tacita Dean’s Triple Header Implicit Nostalgia And History – Sue Hubbard
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
Erdem Fashion Brand Closes National Portrait Gallery For Runway Show
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) London will be closed to the public on Monday (19 February) due to a runway… Read More
18 February 2018
Duchess Of Cambridge Curates Victorian Photos At NPG
The Duchess Of Cambridge has agreed to select Victorian photographs from an upcoming exhibition at the NPG, as part of a Patron’s trail.
16 February 2018
Rebel Women: Suffragette Centenary Celebrated At National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery will exhibit a portrait slashed with a butcher’s cleaver by a suffragette for the first time in over twenty years.
29 January 2018
Victorian Photography Pioneers Explored In New NPG Exhibition
An exhibition of work by four of the most celebrated Victorian art photographers is to open at The National Portrait Gallery in London.
24 August 2017
BP Portrait Award Unveils Three Shortlisted Artists For 2017 Competition
The BP Portrait Award 2017 at the National Portrait Gallery, London, has announced the three short-listed artists for this year’s competition.
19 April 2017
Tracey Emin Death Mask Purchased For £67k By National Portrait Gallery
Death Mask’ by artist Tracey Emin, has been purchased by The National Portrait Gallery in London, it was announced today,
13 April 2017
Major Picasso Portrait Exhibition Announced By London’s National Portrait Gallery
London’s National Portrait Gallery has announced a major exhibition of portraits by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) opening this October. All phases of… Read More
11 April 2016
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide Web Honoured With Statue
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a newly commissioned portrait of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide… Read More
28 May 2015
Alberto Giacometti Portraits Exhibition Announced For National Portrait Gallery London
An exhibition of portraits by Alberto Giacometti is to open at the National Portrait Gallery in London this autumn. The first… Read More
14 May 2015
Director Chris Dercon: To Leave Tate Modern To Run Prestigious Theatre
Artlyst had previously noticed an alarming trend with the seeming exodus of London’s leading museum directors. This includes the resignation… Read More
24 April 2015
Tate’s Chris Dercon Rumoured Resignation NPG’s Sandy Nairne Bows Out
Artlyst is not normally one for conspiracy theories, but we have noticed an alarming trend with the seeming exodus of… Read More
10 April 2015
Grayson Perry Attracts Record Visitors At National Portrait Gallery Exhibition
Artist Grayson Perry’s exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery has attracted record visitors. A quarter of a million people came… Read More
17 March 2015
Audrey Hepburn Explored In New Photography Exhibition At National Portrait Gallery
The exquisite Audrey Hepburn, will be the subject of a new photography exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in… Read More
2 December 2014
John Singer Sargent Blockbuster For National Portrait Gallery This February
The National Portrait Gallery will stage a major exhibition in 2015 of works by one of the world’s most celebrated… Read More
30 September 2014
Lord Snowdon Photographs Go On Display At National Portrait Gallery
An important display of portraits by Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones AKA Lord Snowdon from the 1950s to the 1990s has… Read More
26 September 2014
BP Portrait Award To Accept Digital Entries For 2015 Competition
London’s BP Portrait Award will be accepting digital entries for the 2015 event, at The National Portrait Gallery. As one… Read More
20 August 2014
Christabel Pankhurst: Leading Suffragette Portrait Acquired By NPG
A portrait of Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading Suffragettes, has gone on public display for the first time in… Read More
24 July 2014
Lord Snowdon Gifts 130 Of His Most Iconic Images To The NPG
Lord Snowdon/ Antony Armstrong-Jones has given 130 original prints of some of his most iconic photographs to the National Portrait… Read More
15 July 2014
Nicky Philipps Portrait Of Falklands Veteran Simon Weston Unveiled At NPG
A painted portrait of Falklands War veteran Simon Weston by the artist Nicky Philipps has been ubveiled at The National… Read More
20 March 2014
Hampstead Village People: Portraits of Local Cultural Icons
The National Trust, as part of its programme of New Art in London, is staging a photographic exhibition in partnership… Read More
6 March 2014
Bob Carlos Clarke Celebrity Portraits Donated To The National Portrait Gallery
An impressive selection of rarely seen celebrity portraits by renowned photographer Bob Carlos Clarke have been donated to the National… Read More
13 August 2013