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National Portrait Gallery

July 2024

  • A colossal project sees 195 flats reborn … Park Hill housing estate, transformed by Mikhail Riches, on the Sterling prize shortlist.

    Britain’s best new building: can a tiny dairy farm beat the epic Elizabeth line?

    From increasing the National Portrait Gallery’s wall space to revitalising a notorious estate, this year’s finalists for the RIBA Stirling architecture prize couldn’t be more different
  • Portrait of Peter Tatchell by Sarah Jane Moon (detail)

    Portrait of Peter Tatchell hung in National Portrait Gallery

    LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner ‘delighted and honoured’ to have painting by Sarah Jane Moon on display
  • Museum horse

    From Shakespeare’s lost plays to the world’s oldest horse: the bumper Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 quiz

    The five nominees competing to be crowned the UK’s best museum have each sent in five devilish questions about their collections – how culturally clued up are you?

April 2024

  • Interior of the National Portrait Gallery, featuring glass roof and people looking at paintings.

    Revamped National Portrait Gallery among contenders for museum of the year

  • Painting, called Lying by the artist Catherine Chambers, shows a man lying on a bed in an Arsenal shirt and jeans.

    National Portrait Gallery reveals shortlist for global painting prize

March 2024

  • Nicholas Cullinan and Courtney Love pose for a picture outside the awards

    Nicholas Cullinan: energetic leader tasked with British Museum overhaul

    After overseeing a transformation of the National Portrait Gallery he will need to draw on that experience in his new role
  • Nicholas Cullinan

    British Museum appoints new director after alleged thefts scandal

    Nicholas Cullinan, head of National Portrait Gallery, replaces Hartwig Fischer, who resigned over response to allegations
    • Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In review – an intriguing double act

    • Woodman and Cameron: Portraits to Dream In – groundbreaking female photographers a century apart

    • ‘Inclusivity shouldn’t be controversial’: will a radical art rehang give Cambridge an unwanted ‘woke’ row?

February 2024

  • Still You Bloom In the Land of No Gardens, 2021 by Njideka Akunyili (detail).

    The Time Is Always Now: Soulscapes review – the Black figure reframed to momentous effect

  • Le Rodeur: The Exchange by Lubaina Himid (2016) from the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition.

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

  • Father Stretch My Hands by Nathaniel Mary Quinn (2021)

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

  • Thomas J Price at the National Portrait Gallery.

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

December 2023

  • Nan Goldin, pictured at a press conference in Berlin, is in the top spot of the ArtReview Power 100 list of art’s most influential people.

    The Guardian view on women in art: a cycle of here today, gone tomorrow must be halted

  • Johnny Flynn as the young Nicholas Winton in the film One Life.

    Kindertransport success of ‘Britain’s Schindler’ celebrated in new film and exhibition

November 2023

  • The Blavatnik Wing at the National Portrait Gallery

    National Portrait Gallery criticised over choice of sponsor to replace BP

  • Carl Francois van der Linde for Chotu Lal Upside-down depicting professional wrestlers of Continental Wrestling Entertainment (CWE).

    The world turned on its head: Taylor Wessing portrait prize winners – in pictures

  • Alexandre Silberman, Diena.

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

  • A new bloom … Self Portrait, 22 November 2021, in the Drawing From Life show.

    David Hockney review – a dazzling victory parade from a boundless lover of life

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