National Portrait Gallery

Tired of the telly? All Playstationed out? Over the next three days we’ll bring you a guide to the best holiday season art exhibitions. So grab your coat, we’re goin’ down the galleries. National Portrait Gallery: Cornel Lucas – Shooting Stars Brings together fifty of …

Just a couple of exhibitions we were meant to tell you about at the end of last week and completely forgot about for obvious reasons. The first is the fantastic World’s Most Photographed at the National Portrait Gallery. This started last week and it’s only …

Tomorrow sees the beginning of one of Londonist’s favourite annual arty events: the BP Portrait award at the National Portrait Gallery. This year has seen a record-number of entries (955 to be exact) competing to win the first prize of £25,000, which should hopefully mean …

Lucian Freud’s newest work The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer is unveiled today at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square. The question on everyone’s minds is “Who is the girl?” The self-portrait depicts Freud in his studio with a young nude woman clutched …

Today sees a new portrait of Dame Judy Dench unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. The artist Alessandro Raho usually drapes his subjects in theatrical clothes but with Dame Judy he has opted for a simple white jacket against a stark white background. Inspiration came, …

It’s January. You’re skint and slightly heavier than you were this time last month. You’ve probably sworn off the booze for a bit and if you see another box of Cadbury’s Heroes you’re likely to throw up. So, in the spirit of the post-Xmas period, …

Two of Londonists favourite ‘arty’ events of the year are both at the National Portrait Gallery – they are the BP Portrait Awards and the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize. Ok, so we like portraits. Nothing wrong with that is there? The Schweppes prize opens today, …