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David Hockney has painted Harry Styles, and some fans think it’s a botched job

Styles said it was “a complete privilege” to be painted by the Bradford-born artist

Evening Standard

David Hockney’s Harry Styles painting to go on show at National Portrait Gallery

The singer posed for the veteran artist at his studio in France.

The Independent UK

National Portrait Gallery: the reopening review

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…

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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm review: Macca’s remarkable snaps capture the buzz of Beatlemania

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

The Independent UK

National Portrait Gallery reopening review – a magnificent reinvention

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

The Guardian - UK

National Portrait Gallery £41.3m makeover review – a breath of fresh air

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

The Guardian - UK

Windrush heroes, knotted ropes and Macca’s Beatles snaps – the week in art

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

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Portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry removed from Royal Gallery as feud between brothers continues

A 'sweet' painting of Williamand Harrywhen they were younger and dressed in military uniform has been removed from the National Portrait Gallery.

Daily Record

The National Portrait Gallery’s architect Jamie Fobert has set the London gallery free

After years of undignified adaptations, this ingenious intervention has restored the building to its original beauty, and more

Evening Standard

New National Portrait Gallery collection to be ‘representative of Britain today’

The Inspiring People project is focused on inclusivity and representing people who have been previously overlooked.

The Independent UK

The new National Portrait Gallery review – ‘It’s the same old cocktail party’

We’re told it has been changed utterly. As if. The NPG makes a claim to be a serious temple of art – but its dismal subservience to celebrity persists

The Guardian - UK

Slashed stone, daylight galore and doors by Tracey Emin: the National Portrait Gallery’s £41m rebirth

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

The Guardian - UK

The new National Portrait Gallery review – more democratic and diverse, it has never looked better

At last the gallery is worthy of its magnificent collection

Evening Standard

National Portrait Gallery reopens its refreshed home

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

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Kate Middleton goes thrifty in chic two-in-one blazer dress and a jewelry re-wear as she steps out with curls to die for

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

Evening Standard

OPINION - Where’s Margaret Thatcher in the new National Portrait Gallery mural?

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…

The Guardian - UK

Facial recognition: the 10 best exhibits in the revamped National Portrait Gallery

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

The Independent UK

Tracey Emin draws 45 portraits of women for National Portrait Gallery doors

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

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Tracey Emin shares she is one-eighth Nubian as she unveils National Portrait Gallery collaboration

Artist has created 45 female portraits in gallery’s bronze doors

Evening Standard

The insider’s guide to the hottest parties and events of the summer

David Beckham, Poppy Delevingne, Gene Gallagher and more tell Joe Bromley how to have the perfect high society summer

Evening Standard

The National Portrait Gallery: ‘if your collection only represents a fraction of Britain, that’s a problem’

The gallery’s director Nicholas Cullinan and Chanel Curator of Collections Flavia Frigeri on why reopening the new look NPG was always about representing the UK as it is today

Evening Standard

Blank canvas: gender-neutral uniforms at the National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery staff will be getting the uniforms for its reopening on June 22 after a £35 million refurbishment

Daily Mirror

William and Harry's 'sweet' picture removed from display at National Portrait Gallery

The 'sweet' portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry in happier times will no longer be on display in the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens this month after a £35million refit

The Independent UK

US, UK galleries buy masterpiece 'Portrait of Mai' for $62M

One of the earliest portraits of a person of color by a British artist will remain on public display after London’s National Portrait Gallery and the J

The Guardian - UK

Tapestry celebrating refuse collectors to go on show in National Portrait Gallery

Michael Armitage’s work will hang alongside high-profile figures in new gallery when NPG reopens in June

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