Photograph by bradman334 shows Emily Young’s sculpture, dedicated to the victims of July 7th 2005 The National Portrait Gallery is trying to raise £100,000 to save the first known British oil painting of a freed slave London a parasite on Albion? Say it ain’t so …
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. There are colossal, legendary and living lions. Lions from one of the seven wonders of the world, from the cradle of liberty and there’s a lion …
Detail of the faded posy, showing a coiled serpent. A rarely seen portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery. The painting depicts the mannish Bess holding a coiled serpent, a detail that only recently came to light …
The NPG has opened up a new cache of records from its 150-year history, and it turns out to be quite a history. The digital archive reveals how, in 1909, a woman was shot dead by her husband in Room 27 (now the Victorian scientists/engineers …
There’s a new portrait in the Contemporary Galleries of the National Portrait Gallery. A pair of brothers, casually chatting together, their faces turned to each other and their bodies relaxed, exuding all sorts of ‘off duty’ vibes in the painting. The brothers depicted are Prince …
Denise Lewis and Jonathan Edwards. © Brian Griffin – National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project As part of the 1000 day countdown to the 2008 games, Beijing PR bods invited locally based foreign residents to go on a long-distance jog around a Lake. Facing …
Ha, 40 portraits in one photograph. So sue me. Image not copyrighted by M@. A US citizen who uploaded thousands of images of National Portrait Gallery paintings to Wikipedia has been threatened with legal action, if a letter from Lincoln’s Inn lawyers Farrer & Co., …
Image / neil365 The singer’s last wrangle with high culture ended somewhat unfortunately, with a widely derided position on the Orange prize judging panel that she ended up quitting due to ill health. She should fare better in her new, less demanding gig as the …
Those amiable people in the Kudocities London crew have organised a drinking session thinly disguised as a cultural outing to the National Portrait Gallery. There’s a free film showing in the Ondjaatie Wing about artist John Virtue and his commission to paint a series of …
Not much to whinge about here apart from a migraine and hazy memories of the most stultifying Sunday evening you’ve had in awhile, but no matter — it’s a 4-day workweek, which means nothing if not carefree magic. Rest your pretty little head this evening, …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 31st March 1990: Violence erupts as hundreds of thousands of anti-poll-tax protesters take to the streets in the West End. An estimated £400,000 of damage is caused to property as cars are overturned and set alight. Hundreds of …
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