MYSTERIOUS: 6 | Mind Blowing Facts

National Portrait Gallery reopening to include unseen Paul McCartney photos

The display will help launch the gallery’s summer programme.

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2023

Unseen Beatles pictures to go on show as National Portrait Gallery reopens

Previously unseen photographs taken by Paul McCartney at the height of Beatlemania are going on show in the re-opened National Portrait Gallery.

Evening Standard · Jan 25, 2023

Former Falkirk Provost is named personality of the year by arts group

Sky Arts Portrait Artist winner is also celebrated by Falkirk Arts Network

Daily Record · Jan 23, 2023

Descendants of Algernon Marsden help save Tissot portrait of great grandfather

The Victorian painting by Jacques Joseph ‘James’ Tissot was valued at £2.4 million.

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

‘Emancipation’ producer called out for showing off photo of enslaved man at premiere

LOS ANGELES — Joey McFarland, a producer on Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” apparently did not think through the ramifications of showing off the original 1863 “scourged back” photo of an enslaved man at the film’s L.A. premiere Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 2, 2022

National Portrait Gallery to get new wing as part of revamp

Blavatnik Wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits when London institution reopens in 2023

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2022

National Portrait Gallery will get new wing as part of refurbishment

The Blavatnik Wing will host portraits of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the Bronte sisters and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Evening Standard · Nov 23, 2022

‘At 52, I abandoned everything, every friend, every family member’: the top official who escaped Scientology

After 45 years in the church, Mike Rinder became disillusioned and walked out. He talks about daily life in the organisation, being disciplined in ‘the Hole’, and his hopes of reconnecting with his children

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2022

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic process rather than her life

WEKU · Nov 12, 2022

National Gallery entrance revamp row recalls King Charles’ ‘carbuncle’

Architects’ society forced to defend scheme to remodel entrance from ‘unjustified’ criticism

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022