The Latest Breaking News from The National Gallery

The National Gallery’s latest financial woes have brought the possibility of charging visitors back into the frame

London’s National Gallery has launched a “voluntary exit” scheme for staff to address an £8.2 million deficit, with the possibility of redundancies to follow. The news bodes ill for cultural institutions and cuts, in contrast to the recent announcement of additional cultural funding from the UK government.

Items worth £59.7m allocated to museums, galleries, libraries and archives as part of Arts Council England scheme

With a new exhibition of his work at the National Gallery in London, a visit to the artist’s home town reveals the landscapes and industry that inspired him

Letters: Harriet Monkhouse responds to a review of the National Gallery exhibition that includes An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

Joseph Wright of Derby’s vivid paintings depicted Enlightenment thinking and illumination amid the dark. So why are they so terrifying?

TRAVEL IN FOCUS: Not focusing just on Picasso, but also highlighting the importance of the other people around him, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, in partnership with the Musée Picasso in Paris, promises a new perspective on the troubled artist, writes Michael Hodges

In late July, during a visit to the National Gallery of Australia, three Buddhist bodhisattva statues caught my attention.

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Jones’s view that the chain of galleries is losing its identity as more dynamic rivals flourish