Edvard Munch Portraits: Personas With A Body – John K. Grande
“Nature is the vast eternal kingdom which nourishes art,” Munch observed, and this vast source was not a choice but a reality…
13 March 2025
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Edvard Munch Portraits
Widely regarded as one of the great portraitists of the 19th and 20th centuries, Edvard Munch consistently produced intimate portraits of family, friends.
Open daily: 10.30 – 18.00 Friday & Saturday: 10.30 – 21.00
Zoë Law: Presents Noel Gallagher And Over 100 LEGENDS At NPG
Over a hundred celebrated figures from the colourful areas of art, fashion, business, and entertainment will be showcased in LEGENDS by Zoë Law.
9 September 2024
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
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In Hardcover Catalogue
Photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron are two of the most influential women in the history of photography. They lived a century apart – Cameron working in the UK and Sri Lanka from the 1860s, and Woodman in America and Italy from the 1970s.
21 March 2024
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In NPG London
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a groundbreaking exhibition showcasing the rare vintage prints of two iconic photographers: Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron.
21 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
Missing UK Museum Objects: The Latest Story Behind The Vitrine
In recent months, UK Museum collections have come under intense scrutiny, with headlines echoing the ‘alleged’ thefts of up to 2000 objects…
10 January 2024
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
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 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