portraits

Have you got the balls to stop strangers on the streets and ask to shoot them?

A project capturing portraits of Londoners from each of the 204 countries competing in London 2012

Muswell Hill artist paints her local shopkeepers and makes collage work of London celebs.

Inspiration! A shot from a previous Shoot. The Shoot Experience team continue to blaze a photographic trail across the city, this time teaming up with the National Portrait Gallery for an extravaganza that promises to be two-parts photography, one-part action-adventure and one-part unbridled competition. Prizes …

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 …

Joe Dallesandro by Paul Morrissey 1968, k.d.lang by Jill Furmanovsky 1992 & Joe Orton by Lewis Morley 1965 all courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery has gone a bit queer this summer. Beyond the perennial portraits of gay, lesbian, bi or …

Wanna carry around a picture of a nude lady without accusations of perversion? Or are you more sophisticated than us, and crave knowledge about your favourite masterpieces while on the move? Either way, the National Gallery’s new mobile application ‘Love Art’ is worth downloading. At …

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Mary Hamilton (detail), 1789 One of our favourite places to pass the time at the British Museum (apart from gazing lovingly at the roof while dodging schoolchildren) is the Prints and Drawings room. Way up in the rafters, beyond the …

Akram Khan & Juliette Binoche by roll the dice We were fortunate to be in the company of the beautiful people on Friday when actress Juliette Binoche and dance star Akram Khan revealed their upcoming Franco-British collaboration for the National Theatre. The project – In-I …