The Latest Breaking News from the National Gallery

National Gallery should scrap 1900 cut-off date, says art expert

Julian Spalding says work by artists such as David Hockney could hang alongside old masters in bicentenary year

The Guardian - UK · Feb 10, 2024

OPINION - Just Stop Oil have attacked another painting and I can't bring myself to condemn it

I revere art as much as the next person but if I get more angry at the protesters than their cause I need to reevaluate

Evening Standard · Nov 10, 2023

Just Stop Oil attack the Rokeby Venus: how the group is using the suffragettes' disruptive tactics to shape public opinion

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London. This, you might be surprised to hear, is not the first time this painting has been the target of activists.

The Conversation · Nov 6, 2023

'Nike shoes' spotted in 400-year-old painting sparks time traveller debate

Portrait of a Boy by Ferdinand Bol hangs in the National Gallery in London and one detail has gotten people talking about time travel

Irish Mirror · May 22, 2023

Artist Lindsey Mendick on the National Gallery show The Ugly Duchess: “I’m not sure how funny this satire is”

The rising star artist visits an exhibition that raises questions of just how much our attitudes to women have changed in the last 400 years

Evening Standard · May 4, 2023

My London: Pellicano Hotels CEO Marie-Louise Scio

Pellicano Hotels CEO Marie-Louise Scio picks up Wedgwood at Portobello Market, wells up at the National Gallery and laces up roller-skates at Flipper’s

Evening Standard · Apr 13, 2023