The acquisition was funded by the American Friends of the National Gallery of London and bought from a private collection in a sale brokered by Sotheby's. The price represents a significant outlay ...

Lord Sainsbury didn't like the design of the wing his family funded. He paid for it though, and slipped a 1990 letter into a pillar during construction. Construction workers found it 33 years later.

LONDON — Two climate change protesters were arrested Monday after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery, police ...

In the late 1980s, the Sainsbury brothers, operators of the U.K.’s second largest supermarket chain, bankrolled a project to build a new wing at London’s National Gallery. The museum needed ...

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 said on X that the room was cleared of visitors and police were called after the demonstration took place just before 11 a.m. local time on Monday.

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London's National Gallery has had a big makeover and is finally set to open to the public. Is it a hit or a miss? Here's our assessment.

“The Last Caravaggio,” a new exhibition at the National Gallery in London, pairs these final mythological paintings in a striking storytelling feat about physical death and psychic revelation ...

“Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” is on at London’s National Gallery through January 19, 2025. Vincent van Gogh, Olive Grove, 1889; Oil on canvas, 73 × 93 cm, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden.