Nicholas Cullinan portrait goes up at his former employer, London’s National Portrait Gallery – The Art Newspaper
The British Museum director and art world fixture Nicholas Cullinan has been caught on canvas by Elizabeth Peyton.…
5 exhibitions celebrating female creatives, from Marilyn Monroe to Frida Kahlo
As in most fields, women in art have often been pushed to the margins and left woefully under-represented.…
Two artists who created remarkably similar works 50 years apart celebrated at National Portrait Gallery
Australian artist Noel McKenna draws a lot of inspiration from dogs. Now, some of those “dogs he has…
Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl’ Portrait Debuts at London’s National Portrait Gallery
Lily Allen’s Album Portrait Debuts at U.K. MuseumVictor Boyko – Getty Images Lily Allen’s critically acclaimed album West…
Lily Allen’s ‘West End Girl’ Portrait Debuts at London’s National Portrait Gallery
Lily Allen’s Album Portrait Debuts at U.K. MuseumVictor Boyko – Getty Images Lily Allen’s critically acclaimed album West…
Photographer Catherine Opie at the National Portrait Gallery
Against patterned blue wallpaper like a rich backdrop in a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, a young…
London show highlights how drawing was at the heart of Lucian Freud’s practice – The Art Newspaper
Further proof of the unflagging appetite for Lucian Freud exhibitions comes this month as the National Portrait Gallery…
Meet the Winners of the 2025 Teen Portrait Competition
Matilda Myers, ‘Rest,’ 2024. Winner, age group 13-15. Every three years, the National Portrait Gallery hosts a major…
National Portrait Gallery Pays Tribute in ‘Portrait of a Nation’ Show
The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will show newly commissioned and acquired works paying tribute to filmmaker…
Dolly Parton heads to Australian desert in unique exhibit celebrating rising art star Kaylene Whiskey
Dolly Parton has never stepped foot on the dry red dirt of Indulkana in remote South Australia. In…
Nicky Haslam on Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World at the National Portrait Gallery
The curator and creator of this riveting show is Robin Muir, sometime Vogue contributing editor, archivist for Condé…
‘Nike trainer’ spotted in 17th century painting
A painting in the National Portrait Gallery has gained attention after a mother and daughter couldn’t help but…