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‘Art isn’t just about dead white males’: galleries fight to lure young visitors

The National Portrait Gallery is challenging the belief that UK museums are exclusively for establishment imagery with a new showcase for black artists – and offering £5 tickets for under-25s

The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2024

Ekow Eshun considers the Black figure in portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery

In ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’, curator Ekow Eshun unites works from 22 African diasporic artists working in the UK and US

Wallpaper · Feb 24, 2024

The Time is Always Now review – striking shades of brilliant black figurative art

From an escaped slave pointing a gun to a kid in a Birmingham barber shop, this terrific show shuttles back and forth between times, places, sculpture and painting

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2024

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Black British artists can no longer be ignored, says sculptor Thomas J Price

Price says the number of exhibitions focused on black artists has ‘set a new standard’ for representation in the UK

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2024

The Long Road to a Juneteenth Museum

Architects have made a Fort Worth neighborhood’s history part of the plan for this unique Juneteenth museum.

Texas Observer · Feb 1, 2024

OPINION - Women artists are everywhere in 2024 but let's face it, it's about damn time

It's a great year of exhibitions but museums need to double down and beef up their collections with the work of female artists

Evening Standard · Jan 5, 2024

British Museum’s BP sponsorship deal ‘astonishingly out of touch’

Campaigners criticise £50m tie-up with fossil fuel firm to help fund ‘masterplan’ redevelopment project

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

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The artist and the chef unveil a much-loved portrait

A portrait of chef Maggie Beer by artist Del Kathryn Barton has been revealed at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Don't worry, everyone loves it.

AAP · Dec 7, 2023

David Hockney unveils Christmas display at Battersea Power Station to bring ‘joy and hope’ to London

David Hockney unveiled his Christmas-themed artwork at Battersea Power Station

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2023

600 years of portraiture on show at the National Portrait Gallery in 2024

London's National Portrait Gallery reveals its 2024 exhibitions lineup, showcasing over 6 centuries of portraiture!

Digital Camera World · Nov 18, 2023

National Portrait Gallery criticised over choice of sponsor to replace BP

New portrait prize sponsor, the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, has represented the oil company

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2023

Tracey Emin says she ‘totally accepted death’ following cancer diagnosis: ‘That’s what kept me alive’

Artist underwent a series of major surgeries for bladder cancer in 2020 and now uses a urostomy bag

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2023

Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 Winners announced, unveiling the "Very best of contemporary photographic talent."

The National Portrait Gallery has announced its winners of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023

Digital Camera World · Nov 9, 2023

‘It has a mystical power’: moment of serenity in a Paris park wins Taylor Wessing photography prize

Alexandre Silberman’s dreamlike portrait of Diena was praised by judges for its blend of the traditional and contemporary

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023

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The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2023

David Hockney gets personal: National Portrait exhibition stars friends, family and Harry Styles

Hockney’s Drawing from Life exhibition puts visitors up close and personal with some of the beloved artist’s most important sitters

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2023

Hockney’s Harry Styles picture goes on display at National Portrait Gallery

David Hockney: Drawing From Life features more than 30 new portraits which are on show for the first time.

Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2023

London’s new art power list

Meet the 31 movers, shakers and picture-makers reinvigorating the city’s art scene

The Guardian - UK · Aug 24, 2023

Brand aid: have Britain’s arts venues sold out to The Man?

Manchester’s Aviva Studios is the latest venue to give its naming rights to the highest bidder. Is corporate sponsorship a necessity for the survival of the arts?

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The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023

Michael Leonard obituary

Other lives: Painter and illustrator whose portrait of Queen Elizabeth with one of her corgis hangs in the National Portrait Gallery

Wallpaper · Aug 4, 2023

Design at the White House: the creatives working with US Presidents past and present

Interior designers, fashion designers and artists, whose collaborators have included the White House and its residents, with commissions that range from interior refits to presidential portraits

The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2023

David Hockney’s Harry Styles painting to go on show at National Portrait Gallery

The singer posed for the veteran artist at his studio in France.

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023

The National Portrait Gallery’s new restaurant is a fabulous upgrade

Snail bolognese and goat’s milk ice cream pep up Richard Corrigan’s upmarket brasserie menu at The National Portrait Gallery, writes Lucy Thackray

The Conversation · Jul 7, 2023

Yevonde: Life and Colour exhibition reopens the National Portrait Gallery in style

A long-overdue exhibition of the work of photographer Yevonde Middleton (1893-1975) has opened at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London. Yevonde: Life and Colour is the first major exhibition since the gallery reopened its doors, following a three-year refurbishment.

The Week · Jun 30, 2023

National Portrait Gallery: the reopening review

In 2020, the National Portrait Gallery closed for renovations. And they were much needed, said Laura Freeman in The Times: its entrance hall was “poky”, and its collection “dusty and undervisited” – overshadowed by the museum’s “shiny, shouty” temporary exhibitions. It has since undergone “a £41m makeover” helmed by Jamie…

Daily Mirror · Jun 27, 2023

Paul McCartney's tribute to former love who broke up with him live on TV

Sir Paul McCartney has paid a touching tribute to his former fiancée with an exhibition dedicated to her at the National Portrait Gallary which he and his family paid a secret visit to

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