To celebrate its bicentenary, London's National Gallery has purchased a curious altarpiece for $20 million that it was eyeing for decades. Titled The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and ...

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 ...

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.

Art History London’s National Gallery Just Spent $20 Million on a Strange Altarpiece. There’s a Dragon in It. The work is by an unknown painter who likely had a sense of humor.

When the work is complete, the National Gallery will display more than 1,000 works of art created by roughly 400 artists. That represents nearly half of the gallery’s entire collection.

The London National Gallery will celebrate its 200th birthday on May 10, 2024. Vincenzo Lombardo via Getty Images. Throughout the National Gallery’s 200-year history, the London museum’s ...

At London’s National Portrait Gallery, “The Face Magazine: Culture Shift” celebrates the enduring, boundary-pushing imagery that first appeared on the pages of this youth-oriented ...

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.

London’s National Gallery Presents a History of Violence as Painted By Caravaggio The artist’s final masterpiece looms large in a new exhibition, reminding us of his fascination with some of ...

LONDON — The Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery in London, founded in 1768 and 1856 respectively, have long been symbols of the British art establishment — namely the White, ...