London Portrait Gallery

A UK jury has convicted tw activists who covered a Picasso and caused damage at the National Portrait Gallery 2 years ago. In October 2024, two activists - Jai Halai (25) and Monday-Malaichi Rosenfeld (23) - entered the National Portrait…

A video installation by Helen Cammock at the National Portrait Gallery has come under fire for criticizing the role of Winston Churchill in the Bengal Famine of 1943. Titled Persistence (2025), the 40-min video is a video essay on the…

Nicholas Cullinan, the new director of the British Museum, has made big promises to overhaul the tainted institution. In March, Nicholas Cullinan was announced as the new director of the museum. He took command in June, taking over…

The person behind the Frieze Art Fair, Victoria Siddall, has been selected as the next head of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Siddall would be the 13th president of one of the most recognizable galleries in the world. She would…

Two JustStopOil protestors who threw at a Van Gogh painting in London have been found guilty of criminal charges. In October of 2022, two protestors – later identified as Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer – threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s…

The British Museum has chosen Nicholas Cullinan, currently the director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, as its new head. As director, Nicholas Cullinan would have his work cut out for him – to navigate the museum out of the…

The UK has extended the ban on Joshua Reynolds' Portrait Of Omai, as National Portrait Gallery gets more time to raise funds to acquire. This is the second time the UK government has extended the export ban on the painting, starting from…

The London-based National Portrait Gallery has been raising almost $58 million to buy an 18th-century painting by Joshua Reynolds. Titled Portrait of Omai (1776), the work features a man called Omai, who was from Tahiti. In the late 18th…

National Portrait Gallery in London has decided to correct the overlooked contributions of women across the nation’s history through a project to cover more female contributions. The museum announced a three-year project to increase the…

National Portrait Gallery in London was written an open letter recently by several artists which included the likes of Anish Kapoor, Sarah Lucas, Allen Jones, Rachel Whiteread and others who demand that the Gallery should cut its ties with…