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Architect Jamie Fobert’s new entrance is the crowning achievement of this bold refurbishment, which opens forgotten windows and embraces the NPG’s mixed identity as temple of art-cum-tourist attraction

Leonor Antunes gets knotted, Carrie Mae Weems questions Black representation and Paul McCartney shares his early adventures with the Fab Four

Forty-five faces of women, scribbled by Emin, now beam out from bronze doors – all part of an astonishing revamp that has turned this once unloved London landmark into a great building

At last the gallery is worthy of its magnificent collection

London’s National Portrait Gallery reopens with a design by leading architect Jamie Fobert and conservation specialist Purcell

Kate Middleton went for a two-in-one outfit and a pair of $120 earrings from her collection as she stepped out at the National Portrait Gallery

She’s been dead for 10 years but I rarely read the news without thinking of her. More than any other figure of recent history, Margaret Thatcher created modern Britain, in all its dysfunction and despondency. Housing misery, asthmatic public services, crumbling infrastructure, badly privatised industries such as the waterworks, which…

To mark the London gallery’s reopening this week after a £35m redevelopment, its director and chief curator introduce their favourite paintings from the expanded collection

Art installation The Doors by Tracey Emin will be unveiled when the National Portrait Gallery reopens on Thursday.