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Visual Arts
A brilliant diversity of portraits showing David Hockney's evolution as an artist
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Enjoy nocturnal culture with our guide to the best museum lates London has to offer, from DJs among the dinosaurs to arty parties
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The first UK retrospective of Cindy Sherman's work lands in National Portrait Gallery
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Good things often come in small packages, and at National Portrait Gallery's exhibition Elizabethan Treasures, small reigns supreme
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England's most famous portrait painter, Thomas Gainsborough, takes centre stage in a solo show at the National Portrait Gallery
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South African photographer Alice Mann wins Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 for her series of drum majorettes
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Celebrate the man in the mirror and the art he has inspired at the new National Portrait Gallery exhibition
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Familial love captured in emotional brushwork and often lurid colours: the National Portrait Gallery announces the winner of the BP Portrait Award 2018
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It's your last chance to see The Encounter. Bringing together drawings from the Renaissance to the Baroque, this remarkable exhibition breathes life into the Old Masters
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'What will survive of us is love': we review the National Portrait Gallery's solo show dedicated to the late, great painter
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Dress to transgress: conceptual Surrealist Claude Cahun paired with contemporary artist Gillian Wearing at the National Portrait Gallery
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The festive season is upon us, and we know pantomimes aren't for everyone. So from opera and carols to midnight mass, here's how to celebrate in song this winter
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Classical Music
A programme of vocal music for Remembrance featuring David Lang's specially commissioned piece with the singers' own words
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Visual Arts
The world's favourite artist comes to the NPG: 'Picasso Portraits' London exhibition is a tender celebration, that softens the hard edges of Picasso’s Modernism
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Design
A feast of colour comes to the NPG: William Eggleston's photography is a nostalgic love affair that sings through the decades
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Fashion
Meet Victoria Beckham and hear her talk about her job as a designer and the National Portrait Gallery's latest exhibition: Vogue 100
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Visual Arts
'For the most part, stunning', Tom Stewart reviews Russia and the Arts at the National Portrait Gallery
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Ahead of the National Portrait Gallery's landmark exhibition, Vogue 100, we look at the fashion bible's more radical moments
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Kids
Discover 100 years of Vogue fashion with these children's workshop at the National Portrait Gallery this half term
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Kids
Creative drop-in workshops for families in January and this February half term
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Kids
Dress up like a Victorian and take a family Christmas photograph at the National Portrait Gallery
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NPG's major 2015 retrospective focuses on Giacometti's wiry portraits for the first time
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Secret Beatles photographs by drummer Ringo Starr in new National Portrait Gallery exhibition
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Age before beauty: 2015 BP Portrait Award Exhibition fizzes with subtle photorealism and dynamic painting
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Fashion
What made Audrey Hepburn such an icon? Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw unravels the mystery
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Start eyeballing strangers! Simon Schama collaborates with the National Portrait Gallery to spotlight the best of British portraiture
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John Singer Sargent, National Portrait Gallery 2015 exhibition: rich colours, lavish oils and sumptuous painting from the king of portraits
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Visual Arts
Jump in a cab to Tiffany’s and rediscover Hollywood starlet, Audrey Hepburn in the National Portrait Gallery's spectacular photography exhibition