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Manchester’s Aviva Studios is the latest venue to give its naming rights to the highest bidder. Is corporate sponsorship a necessity for the survival of the arts?

The exhibition explores the rich history of the much-loved Archibald Prize, unearthing fascinating stories behind almost 100 carefully selected artworks.

A long-overdue exhibition of the work of photographer Yevonde Middleton (1893-1975) has opened at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London. Yevonde: Life and Colour is the first major exhibition since the gallery reopened its doors, following a three-year refurbishment.

In 2020, the National Portrait Gallery closed for renovations. And they were much needed, said Laura Freeman in The Times: its entrance hall was “poky”, and its collection “dusty and undervisited” – overshadowed by the museum’s “shiny, shouty” temporary exhibitions. It has since undergone “a £41m makeover” helmed by Jamie…

Sir Paul McCartney has paid a touching tribute to his former fiancée with an exhibition dedicated to her at the National Portrait Gallary which he and his family paid a secret visit to

Britain’s National Portrait Gallery is offering a fresh perspective on The Beatles with an exhibition of band’s-eye-view images taken by Paul McCartney as the group shot to global fame

This recently rediscovered cache of photographs dating from the height of Beatlemania is a once-in-a-generation find

The National Portrait Gallery couldn’t have chosen a better show to reopen its £44m revamp

After three years, the gallery opens its (new) doors to reveal a brilliant transformation that includes a luminous show on a British pioneer of colour photography