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 ...

From Tudor art to The Wire, the gallery’s new director shares the music, books and places that have shaped her ...

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 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 ...

Born and raised in London in the late 1980s, the National Gallery was my gateway art drug. Positioned as it is, in the tourist heartland of Westminster, overlooking Admiral Nelson, four gargantuan ...

A collection of illustrated bird books worth £127,000 will now remain in the UK after the government intervened to stop the ...

Confirming the National Gallery as a sanctuary of beauty and learning, it subtly acknowledges, however, in myriad small changes, the museum’s inevitable role in today’s culture wars.

Thirty-four years after the late Queen Elizabeth II opened the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, her son, King Charles III has returned to reopen it, with Queen Camilla, following extensive ...

The National Gallery celebrates 200th birthday with reopening of Sainsbury Wing, Master Japanese artist Hiroshige comes to the British Museum, Sir Grayson Perry responds to The Wallace Collection ...

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 revealed it will let a member of the public sleep overnight for the “first time” as the Sainsbury Wing reopens after a two-year refurbishment.