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This show featuring 22 artists explores the complexity and precarity of Black lives as well as their richness and wonder

The capital's museums and galleries are a treasure trove of glorious art and ideas – here's our pick of the year's offerings

Yoko Ono’s cheeky pieces, a gut punch from Goya and the National’s centenary celebrations will fill the UK’s galleries, while the Louvre’s architect takes his moment in the sun in this stupendous year

Artist Shawn Michael Warren previously completed a giant mural featuring Oprah Winfrey in the West Loop.

A portrait of chef Maggie Beer by artist Del Kathryn Barton has been revealed at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Don't worry, everyone loves it.

Hockney’s Drawing from Life exhibition puts visitors up close and personal with some of the beloved artist’s most important sitters

The changes are in line with the National Cultural Policy.

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

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

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…

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