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 ...

A new exhibition celebrating rare books and manuscripts which celebrate nature through the ages is to be unveiled in ...

Charles Saumarez Smith, former director of the National Gallery, brings a nice detachment to this short history. It does not replace Jonathan Conlin's fuller account, but offers a useful complement.

So I asked the National Gallery’s curatorial team if they might share the analysis with me. My inquiries went unanswered, so I submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act. This was ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Gallery has sent some of its finest masterpieces around the UK to mark its 200th anniversary. Twelve famous artworks including Constable's The Hay Wain, Botticelli's Venus and Mars ...