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 ...

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 ...

Hats off to Nicholas Cullinan, the dexterous director of the National Portrait Gallery, which is about to reopen after a three-year closure: the £41.3 million transformation he has overseen, in ...

In a forthcoming lecture at King’s College London and a new book NG6461: The Fake National Gallery Rubens, Doxiadis will argue the “flowing, twisting brushstrokes that are so characteristic of ...

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 ...

John Sainsbury disagreed with the design of his family’s namesake wing at London’s National Gallery. Three decades later, after his death, his critique rang anew.