The ancient and the modern, hyper-realism and total abstraction, pleasure and pain, glory and horror, it’s all here at the greatest new art show in town, ladies and gents, where the paintings don’t ...

These are the life and death masks,” says Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), pointing ... Marc Quinn's infamous "Blood head”. The director of the NPG ...

This bronze head, sitting on its side on a plinth ... Artists Reframe the Black Figure at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Pictured, left to right: Nathaniel Mary Quinn, “Homeboy Down ...

A new exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery explores the cultural impact ... Judy Blame and David Beckham like a war hero with blood on his torso by Vincent Peters ( in fact, it was ...

LONDON — Visitors walking into the National Portrait ... stuffy image on its head. In general, it succeeds. As soon as one enters, the brand-new “History Makers Now” gallery displays the ...

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution ... to rediscover the head or make it emerge from beneath the face.” Given Bacon’s respect ...

The Princess of Wales introduced a new phase in her early years campaign at the National Portrait Gallery in London Kate Middleton ... Teacher Alix Ascough, executive head of the school ...

London's National ... Architect and studio head Jamie Fobert at the gallery's preview tour said: 'Hopefully, we have now achieved a much better balance between the building and its collection.' When ...

The piece will hang at the gallery in Drapers’ Hall in downtown London, Yeo wrote. King Charles sat for four sessions with the artist, a trustee at the National Portrait Gallery who has painted ...