The National Portrait Gallery in London’s latest acquisition is a toilet. No, really. The museum just spent £3 million ($3.6 million) on a Victorian-era lavatory, with plans to convert the vacant loo ...

Winston Churchill’s role in the 1943 Bengal Famine is back in the spotlight. A Helen Cammock video installation linking the former British PM to the famine was withdrawn from the National Portrait Gal ...

The Contemporary Collection in the Mary Weston Gallery in the Weston Wing at the National Portrait Gallery, London (photo © David Parry; all images courtesy NPG ...

The London-based museum has faced controversy over a video installation blaming Winston Churchill for a colonial-era famine in India. View on euronews ...

London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a unique cultural venue, founded in 1856 to tell the story of Britain through portraiture, and where a work’s subject is often more important than the ...

How About a Declaration of Charity? Here Come the New Jacobins It’s splendid, with new galleries, a new entrance, and modern twists. The National Portrait Gallery is much loved in the U.K. as both a ...

For the first time in history, all of Van Eyck’s surviving portraits—nearly half of his entire known output—will be displayed together at London’s National Gallery. Jan van Eyck, Margaret, the ...

For those of us who work in the creative industries, the news that AI-generated portraits are now hanging in London's National Portrait Gallery might provoke a sinking feeling. Haven't we been here ...

Britain’s National Portrait Gallery reopened Thursday after a three-year, $53-million renovation. Raising the money in the current climate was tough. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London On a recent ...

Joshua Reynolds’s “Portrait of Mai (Omai)” is considered one of Britain’s most important early portraits of a person of color. In an innovative arrangement, it will travel between London and Los ...

The Culture Wars in Pro Sports Go On — for Now Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Boom Reveals the Human Costs of Single-Payer A Novel Cure for the Self-Help Epidemic The Extravaganza Will Not Be Televised The ...

The Princess of Wales, who has called herself an "enthusiastic amateur photographer," stepped out at the National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday Kate Middleton is back at one of her favorite places! The ...