A rehang tends to elicit strong reactions from anyone with a stake in the collection – and in the case of a public gallery, “anyone” means “everyone”. Unsurprisingly then, it has only been done twice ...

The National Gallery for its 200th birthday has done itself and the nation proud. There are splendid new acquisitions and what the gallery has, it has presented afresh, to remind us what a ...

Britain’s greatest art gallery (I mean, actually) celebrates its 200th anniversary with the reopening of its Sainsbury Wing after a two-year refurbishment, at an estimated £25-30 million cost.

Only one in around every 100 pictures in the National Gallery’s collection of approximately 2,400 works of art – some postcard-sized, others vast – is by a woman.

The National Gallery has acquired an early 16th-century Northern Renaissance altarpiece with the Virgin and Child at its centre by an unknown artist that has not been exhibited since 1960. The ...