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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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