07/10/2007. LONDON.-The National Portrait Gallery presents Devotional, on view through 25 November 2007. Celebrating black female singers in British entertainment, this unique display is the latest development in the 'Devotional Series', a body of work by...

12/16/2008. LONDON.- The only known painting of Mary Seacole, the black Victorian nurse regarded as one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Crimean War, is to remain at the National Portrait Gal...

04/22/2011. EDINBURGH.- The rich and diverse collection of English drawings and watercolours in the National Gallery of Scotland will be the subject of a beautifully designed and generously il...

07/07/2011. LONDON.- Altarpiece: An image-bearing structure placed upon or behind an altar in a Christian church. Usually forms the focus of devotion for worshippers and is normally decorated by painters and/or sculptors. Altarpieces can vary considerably...

07/20/2012. LONDON.- Striking new portraits of Mark Cavendish, Boris Johnson and Anish Kapoor were unveiled today Thursday 19 July 2012 at the National Portrait Gallery, as part of its new exhibition Roa...

10/31/2012. LONDON.- Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present is the National Gallery’s first major exhibition of photography. This groundbreaking show explores the relationship betw...

04/12/2013. Two extraordinary sculptures by the great Surrealist artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) have been placed on long loan to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The massive bronze sculptur...

05/02/2016. The National Gallery of Victoria’s blockbuster exhibition Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei closed this week with a final attendance of 399,127, making it the highest-selling ticketed exhibition in ...

02/22/2018. Eighty works by Spanish masters are arranged in a chronological overview, from the 1600s to the present-day. The still life paintings of great and universally acknowledged artists, such as Cotán, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró and Dalí are shown alon...

03/13/2020. The The National Portrait Gallery, London has unveiled a new portrait of Olympian and Wimbledon Champion, Andy Murray by Maggi Hambling. The multi-figured portrait will join the Gallery's Collection...

08/07/2021. Opening this Saturday at the National Gallery of Australia, Project 1: Sarah Lucas brings together recent work by one of England’s most influential and unapologetic artists. Over the past 30 ye...

12/01/2021. American Friends of The National Gallery of Denmark initiated a fundraising campaign in October to raise the $30,000.- needed for the conservation of the Matisse painting Nymph and Faun, which was ...

05/30/2024. To mark the 2024 presidential election, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Picturing the Presidents: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes from the National Portrait Gallery&#...

07/24/2024. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced that it is one of six recipients of the National Museum of Korea’s Overseas Korean Galleries Support Program. The award of $1.4 million—the largest grant yet awarded—sup...

08/11/2024. The National Gallery is celebrating one million people in the UK visiting a National Gallery touring exhibition over the last decade. This comes as its flagship touring series the The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour turns 10 years old and the Galle...