09/08/2008. LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a commissioned portrait of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Sir Paul Nurse. The portrait, by acclaimed British artist Jason Brooks, is the largest realist painting that the National Portrait Ga...

10/18/2008. NEW YORK.- Casting a dramatic new light on the events that defined a nation, from the conflicts and rivalries of a fast-growing young republic to the fitful efforts at reconstruction after a terrible Civil War, the New-York Historical Society ...

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...

02/27/2014. The National Portrait Gallery is to stage the first national exhibition of the First World War centenary commemorations in February 2014. The Great War in Portraits (27 Feb-15 Jun 2014) will be the ...

03/21/2014. Sharon Percy Rockefeller became chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in September 2013, upon the retirement of John C. Wilmerding, who was appointed to the board in 2005 and...

07/15/2014. A new season of Exhibition on Screen by award-winning arts documentary maker Phil Grabsky & Seventh Art Productions will delight art lovers in more than 40 countries across the world. ...

12/07/2015. The Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada announced a new partnership in which the Gallery, starting in 2016, will become the organizing institution for the Sobey Art Award, Canada...

02/23/2016. A major display of personal items, original manuscripts and works of art to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë, author of Jane Eyre, opened at the National Portrait Gallery ...

09/22/2018. On 20 September 2018, Royal Museums Greenwich opened four new permanent galleries following a major £12.6M redevelopment project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund through The National Lottery (...

03/07/2019. A recently discovered, rare self portrait by the most celebrated female artist of the Italian Baroque – Artemisia Gentileschi – has gone on display today (6 March 2019) in Glasgow Women’s Library, just in time for International Women&#...

01/03/2021. Emma Jääskeläinen's exhibition Proper Omelette ends the three-year Kiasma Commission by Kordelin project on January 10, 2021. In a new initiative launched in 2017 as a collaboration between the Museu...

02/08/2021. Despite one of the most difficult years for cultural institutions worldwide, the National Gallery’s digital drive has proven a success by bringing the collection and temporary exh...

10/11/2021. The National Gallery’s new exhibition Poussin and the Dance, co-organised with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, includes wild, raucous and surprisingly joyous scenes, showi...

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&#...

06/30/2024. Following a 14-month restoration carried out in the Gallery’s Conservation Department and supported by Bank of America Art Conservation Project, The Judgement of Paris (probably 1632‒5) by Peter Paul Rubens (1577‒1640) returns to pub...