LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Camden Town group of artists. Focusing on the leading members of the group which flourished around 1911-1912, the display also showcases three i…
Smithonian’s National Portrait Gallery Removes Video After Group Complains
WASHINGTON (AP).- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is removing a video that was part of an exhibit after complaints from a Catholic group that the images were sacrilegious. Catholic League President Bill Donohue told the New York Post on Tue…
National Portrait Gallery Reveals Secrets Behind Exhibitions in New Teaching Website
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has launched a ground-breaking new online resource which, for the first time, invites students and teachers behind the scenes at a national museum, revealing all the processes in staging an exhibition from start …
National Portrait Gallery Reveals Secrets Behind Exhibitions in New Teaching Website
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has launched a ground-breaking new online resource which, for the first time, invites students and teachers behind the scenes at a national museum, revealing all the processes in staging an exhibition from start …
National Portrait Gallery Gallery Reveals Secrets Behind Exhibitions in New Teaching Website
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has launched a ground-breaking new online resource which, for the first time, invites students and teachers behind the scenes at a national museum, revealing all the processes in staging an exhibition from start …
London’s National Portrait Gallery Finds Relics of English King Richard II in Its Basement
LONDON.- An archivist at the National Portrait Gallery has found relics from the tomb of King Richard II while cataloguing the papers of its first Director Sir George Scharf (1820-1895). Among the hundreds of diaries and notebooks left behind in boxes …
London’s National Portrait Gallery Finds Relics of English King Richard II in Its Basement
LONDON.- An archivist at the National Portrait Gallery has found relics from the tomb of King Richard II while cataloguing the papers of its first Director Sir George Scharf (1820-1895). Among the hundreds of diaries and notebooks left behind in boxes …
Winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize Announced at the National Portrait Gallery
LONDON.- The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 has been won by David Chancellor, 49, for his portrait, Huntress with Buck, of 14 year old Josie Slaughter from Alabama on her first hunting trip to South Africa. He says: ‘Josie had hun…
Winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize Announced at the National Portrait Gallery
LONDON.- The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 has been won by David Chancellor, 49, for his portrait, Huntress with Buck, of 14 year old Josie Slaughter from Alabama on her first hunting trip to South Africa. He says: ‘Josie had hun…
The National Portrait Gallery Presents "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents the first major museum exhibition showing how questions of gender and sexual identity have dramatically shaped the creation of modern American portraiture. “Hide/Seek: Diff…