08/13/2010. TORONTO.- An iconic figure in the world of Canadian and international art, former director of the National Gallery of Canada, Dr. Shirley Lavinia Thomson died peacefully in her sleep on August ...

09/11/2010. LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery to mark the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Society celebrates a critical moment in the development of modern science. T...

08/16/2013. Acquired recently by a friend to the National Gallery of Canada, this exceptional painting will be on view with the largest public collection of the artist’s work in Canada Le Pont de bois ...

10/15/2015. Peter Lanyon (1918-64) sought to create a new vision of landscape painting for the modern era. He considered himself to be extending the landscape traditions of earlier artists, in particular Turner, whom he admired greatly. Lanyon strove to find a l...

12/27/2015. School of Disobedience in Kiasma is not only a real school, but a metaphor for the entire exhibition, which is also a retrospective of Jani Leinonen’s (b. 1978) work to date. Leinonen has in...

12/28/2015. A portrait of Marilyn Monroe will be installed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s “Recognize” space, Jan. 22, 2016. The museum’s historians and curators selected three a...

01/12/2016. Dulwich Picture Gallery will kick off a year of discoveries around its Dutch and Flemish Collection with I Am Van Dyck (12 January – 24 April 2016) , a special display to coin...

07/22/2016. The National Galleries of Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund have announced the confirmation of a £4.94 m award to support an ambitious major redevelopment of the Scottish National Ga...

06/12/2018. A recently published report by Tourism South East (TSE) has concluded that last year’s Jane Austen 200 commemorations contributed £21 million to Hampshire’s economy with more than a million extra visitors being attracted to the county to fo...

09/15/2020. In 2017 Bernardo Bellotto’s The Fortress of Königstein from the North – one of the most original and impressive examples of 18th-century landscape painting – was saved for the nation. To celebrate its acquisition, and reflect the <...

01/01/2021. Design enthusiast Tim Ross’ passion for art was seeded by a book gifted to his mother before he was even born – a publication which is now the inspiration behind a new podcast series on the influence of art in our lives, developed in partne...

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...

02/06/2021. Throughout the current lockdown, the National Gallery has remained open online, continuing to bring the nation’s gallery into the nation’s homes. Through our digital initiative...

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...

03/19/2024. Around the year 1515, at the height of the German Renaissance (circa 1470-1600), a mysterious altarpiece was created in the region of Franconia, now part of modern Bavaria. Somehow it made its way to a church in the UK where it remained whole unt...