
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
Forty-five portraits that “represent every woman” cover the three doors that now form the entrance to the National Portrait Gallery.
20 June 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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 has long been one of the heroines of the professional contemporary art establishment here in Britain
21 February 2019
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’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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Death Mask’ by artist Tracey Emin, has been purchased by The National Portrait Gallery in London, it was announced today,
13 April 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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/ Antony Armstrong-Jones has given 130 original prints of some of his most iconic photographs to the National Portrait… Read More
15 July 2014
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
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
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