National Portrait Gallery

Women's Gymnastics team, Photographed by Anderson & Low, City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club © Anderson & Low – National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 project

Art Review: The Road to 2012 – Aiming High @ National Portrait Gallery

Portraits of the many contributors to London 2012, from torch bearers to athletes.

Tessa and the clay heads by Ruth Murray © Ruth Murray

Art Review: BP Portrait Award @ National Portrait Gallery

A free exhibition of the results of this year’s hunt to find the best in contemporary portrait painting.

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Monday Miscellanea

The first short-lived ‘Panda crossing’ was opened near Waterloo Station 50 years ago today.

Reflection (Self-portrait), 1985. Private Collection, Ireland © The Lucian Freud Archive. Photo: Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive

Art Review: Lucian Freud: Portraits @ National Portrait Gallery

Deeply emotional portraits

Rafaela Carrasco and company: Vamos Al Tiroteo

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 7 – 13 February

This week’s hottest art, dance, theatre, classical and operatic offerings

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Music Preview: Brandenburg Spring Choral Festival

Banish the New Year blues with some choral music.

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Extra, Extra

Hackney, Shepherds Bush, Croydon: our daily all points bulletin.

Joanna Lumley by Debra Hurford Brown,  2005. Copyright Debra Hurford Brown. Part of The Actress Now exhibition at the NPG

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 18-24 October

A slew of new exhibitions and shows open in London this week; some with a distinctly half-termish outlook

What do you mean 'not safe for work'? It's art.

Nell Gwyn Strips Off For The National Portrait Gallery

Delightful representation of the female form or soft porn…?

Distracted by Wim Heldens.

BP Portrait Award At The National Portrait Gallery

55 paintings of the famous and not-so famous. (Sponsored post)