New experience produced by Frameless Creative with London museum to launch national and international tour at MediaCity, Salford, in May 2025

The gallery will also bring Cecil Beaton’s fashion photography and cult magazine The Face to the fore

With its first-ever Bacon show, the gallery plans to make 'a real splash with a major British artist'

Siddall will take up the role this autumn, becoming the first-ever woman to hold the position

How much power do a museum’s curators really have?

The museum recently purchased the 1840s daguerreotype of Dolley Madison at auction

In this exclusive extract from a new book about Henry VIII’s six wives, the art historian Suzannah Lipscomb writes about “perhaps the greatest artistic patron of them all”

The face of the scandal-ridden, best-selling celebrity poet—who died 200 years ago, and had a great influence on 19th-century artists and composers—was better known in his era than that of anyone save Napoloen Bonaparte

Cullinan, currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery, faces an array of challenges in rebuilding the oldest national museum in the world’s reputation

The white, Western canon is being reassessed at the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy and the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Exhibitions at Gagosian in New York and National Portrait Gallery in London confirm late photographer’s arrival

Plus, 100 years of the Surrealist manifesto and Tonita Peña’s Eagle Dance

Curator Ekow Eshun has brought together portraits from 22 leading artists, including Kerry James Marshall and Claudette Johnson

Digital art venues are a global phenomenon, attracting massive audiences with radical new forms of immersive experiences. Are they a threat or an opportunity for traditional galleries and museums?

NPG chief Nicholas Cullinan, Southbank’s Elaine Bedell and Nick Merriman of Horniman Museum all receive OBEs

The portrait, showing the influential media personality in a striking purple dress, was painted by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren

The pastel double-portrait of President Jimmy Carter's recently deceased wife was drawn by Robert Clark Templeton

Herbert Smith Freehills, which runs an "oil and gas" division, replaces BP

The director of London's National Portrait Gallery receives what organisers hope will soon be seen as an “Oscar” of the art world

The painting of the striking Polynesian man, recently bought jointly by London's National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum, may travel to the South Pacific to be shown in Tahiti

The new portrait will go on show in a Covid-delayed exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London

Reviews of the revamped institution insist on calling its former building 'dusty', but that label should really be applied to the website, which is badly in need of an update

Seven portraits of British women by female Magnum photographers will enter the permanent collection of London's newly reopened gallery as it attempts to balance a historic gender disparity

Plus, William Edmondson in Philadelphia and Zinzi Minott's Windrush 75 film in London

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

The 45 portraits, cast in bronze, have been installed on the entrance to the newly restored London museum

Nicholas Cullinan shows us around the new-look museum after its three-year closure

After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements