Top museums and galleries in London for permanent collections and free art
Millions of us visit London’s great museums and galleries, but what’s remarkable is what we manage to overlook…
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait exhibition review at the NPG, London
The show mostly demurs on the scandals, the battles with husbands and studio heads, the mistreatment and abuse…
This joyful Marilyn Monroe exhibition will melt your heart
You would have to have a heart (and loins) of granite not to melt at the radiance of…
Marilyn Monroe Exhibition to open at National Portrait Gallery for 100th Anniversary
Opening this Thursday, 4th June, the National Portrait Gallery is set to mark the centenary of Marilyn Monroe…
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s Fully See-Through Valentino Dress Is Ultra Lacy
Photo Credit: Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty Images for National Portrait Gallery Rosie Huntington-Whiteley delivered a quietly striking moment in…
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…
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in 2026
Tabish Khan, the @LondonArtCritic, picks his top 5 exhibitions to see in museums in London at the beginning…
Nicky Haslam on Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World at the National Portrait Gallery
One wishes the show had a soundtrack of Beaton commenting on his sitters, about whom he gave vivid,…
Bill Viola’s complete moving-image works and a William Dobson self-portrait: the latest museum acquisitions – The Art Newspaper
William Dobson’s Self-Portrait (around 1635-40)Tate and National Portrait Gallery, London Described by one 17th-century biographer as “the most…