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NPG launches legal battle against Wikipedia

14.07.09
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What fabulous faces

17.10.08
The spirit soars at the sight of so many masterpieces in the National Gallery's new show of Renaissance portraits, says Brian Sewell... more

Now for a real art prize

12.09.08
City sponsors have created just what contemporary art needs – the Threadneedle Figurative Prize. Brian Sewell explains more.... more

Wyndham Lewis was Poet Painter

29.08.08
Had Wyndham Lewis left writing alone and concentrated on his art, he could have become one of the most influential artists this country has ever produced.... more

Portrait Award is a mug's game

13.06.08
In an attempt to refresh the BP Portrait Award, the National Portrait Gallery has relaxed its rules – with no discernible improvement in quality for its efforts.... more

Defending National Portrait Gallery

10.06.08
Evening Standard art critic Brian Sewell has questioned the point of the National Portrait Gallery. Here its director Sandy Nairne fights back.... more

Bluestocking Blues

04.04.08
Just as Women’s Studies are discontinued as a discipline in British universities the National Portrait Gallery reminds us of the intellectual aspirations of ladies of an earlier age. ... more

History preserved in a flash

10.07.07
The exhibition Daily Encounters: Photographs from Fleet Street, moves chronologically through political, social and scandal milestones... more

How ugly can the faces get?

25.06.07
Once a forum for energetic and inspired young painters, the BP Portrait Award now fosters dull incompetence and a dependency on the camera, says Brian Sewell.... more

Lost in paradise

30.04.07
Two exhibitions that promise to explore the wonders of the New World frustrate as much as they fascinate, says Brian Sewell.... more

Where is Wilberforce in all this?

05.03.07
The V&A has commissioned a series of new works to mark the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in Britain. Yet it ignores the politician who finally made Parliament see sense.... more

Take me out: best events

01.02.07
There's a second chance to see reggae musical The Harder They Come, there'll be an interactive performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Trafalgar Square and Hot Fuzztival gets underway.... more

War chronicler turns his focus on men of God

31.01.07
Don McCullin, a rakish, atheist war photographer, says he is just the person to take the pictures of religious leaders going on show at the National Portrait Gallery.... more

Kate's the new star of portrait gallery

08.11.06
Iconic photographs of Kate Moss will be at the forefront of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.... more

First showing for Hockney's Mrs Clark

11.10.06
A drawing by David Hockney of Celia Birtwell, wife of late fashion designer Ossie Clark, is to be shown in public for the first time as part of the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition.... more

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