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Alberto Giacometti: Sensible Expression And Pure Presence National Portrait Gallery

Alberto Giacometti: Sensible Expression And Pure Presence National Portrait Gallery

by News Desk | Oct 20, 2015 | Reviews

If the outlandish and often gimmicky world of contemporary art is too hard to digest, ‘Frieze’ week also offers some statelier, classic offerings.  Aside from Frieze Masters itself, Giacometti: Pure Presence has just opened at the National Portrait Gallery while round...
Alberto Giacometti Exhibition At National Portrait Gallery Opens This Week

Alberto Giacometti Exhibition At National Portrait Gallery Opens This Week

by News Desk | Oct 13, 2015 | News

An exhibition devoted to portraits by the artist Alberto Giacometti opens at the National Portrait Gallery this week. The well known Swiss artist has recently sold for millions at an auction in New York, making him the world’s most highly expensive modern sculptor. To...
BP Portrait Awards: A Non Starter Slippery As An Oil Slick

BP Portrait Awards: A Non Starter Slippery As An Oil Slick

by News Desk | Jun 18, 2015 | Features

The genre ‘portraiture’ is as open ended as the limitless expanses of landscape, history painting, still lifes, and abstract: yet while on paper the BP award is as thematically open, and democratically open to everyone to enter, whether amateur or professional, the...
Jack Smith Rarely Seen Abstract Portraits To Be Exhibited At NPG

Jack Smith Rarely Seen Abstract Portraits To Be Exhibited At NPG

by News Desk | Mar 19, 2015 | News

A selection of rarely seen abstract paintings by the important British artist Jack Smith has gone on show at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in the Gallery’s first display to focus on entirely non-figurative portraits, it was announced today. Jack Smith:...

Simon Rattle Portrait Shot On 150-Year Old Camera Unveiled At NPG

by News Desk | Jan 19, 2015 | News

A previously unpublished photograph of the British conductor Sir Simon Rattle by Rory Coonan has been unveiled at The National Portrait Gallery. The portrait was shot in 1982 on film, using a 150-year-old plate camera. The acquisition is announced to mark Sir Simon’s...
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