07/01/2007. NEW HAVEN, CT.- Organized to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds will be the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the visual cultur...

03/28/2009. DUBLIN.-A major retrospective exhibition of Waterford-born artist Thomas Roberts (1748-1777), will open in the Beit Wing of the National Gallery of Ireland on 28 March and will continu...

09/21/2009. EDINBURGH.- The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish Poetry Library will join forces this autumn in celebrating Concrete Poetry, an art form that crosses easily ...

10/10/2009. WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art announced that the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC has acquired for the permanent col...

08/12/2011. LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Augustus John, one of the most celebrated British artists of the early 20th centu...

03/02/2012. LONDON (AP).- Two major British art galleries have raised 45 million pounds ($72 million) to buy a Renaissance masterpiece that has been in the U.K. for 200 years and keep it on public display — a purchase announced Thursday as a substan...

06/04/2013. The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College announced the appointment of Dr. Andaleeb Badiee Banta as its new Curator of European & American Art. Dr. Banta, who will take up her po...

09/09/2014. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will conserve its iconic Lansdowne portrait of George Washington beginning in February 2016. The painting will be off view for a period, but at poin...

07/15/2015. A newly commissioned portrait of Sir Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who proved ‘Fermat’s last theorem’ after it had baffled scientists for centuries, has been unveiled at the National Po...

07/12/2016. The National Portrait Gallery has acquired the first known portrait of a British architect. The painting of Ralph Simons, a mason-architect active in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuri...

07/31/2016. An installation of five monumental ceramic sculptures by Ramesh Nithiyendran, Mud men, is on display from this weekend until 29 January 2017. The work was commissioned specifically for the NGA. N...

02/14/2018. The exhibition There and Back Again brings together 26 artists from the eastern Baltic Sea region: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland and Russia. This collection exhibition of Museum of Contempo...

03/01/2018. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the National Portrait Gallery, London on Wednesday 28 February, to unveil a personal selection of portraits that comprise a Patron's Trail of the major new exhibitio...

06/01/2022. To celebrate and mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the National Portrait Gallery presents a new digital display, a competition for families, as well as an exclusively designed rang...

04/01/2024. The National Galleries of Scotland announced the acquisition of Encounter (1959), by world-renowned Surrealist artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963). Extremely rare and sought-after, this is t...