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Royal Opera House cuts ties with long-term sponsor BP after 33 years

The oil and gas company has sponsored the opera house for more than three decades.

Evening Standard

Royal Opera House ends sponsorship relationship with BP after 33 years

Major move comes after numerous arts insitutions, from The Royal Shakespeare Company to the National Portrait Gallery, have cut their ties with the oil company

The Independent UK

‘Lost’ photos by Paul McCartney to go on show at National Portrait Gallery

Recently rediscovered portraits taken in 60s as Beatles rose to stardom to be focus of exhibition at refurbished NPG

The Guardian - UK

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London Gallery to Show McCartney Photos from Beatlemania Era

A trove of previously unseen photos taken by Paul McCartney as The Beatles shot to global stardom will go on display in London this year. The National Portrait Gallery announced Wednesday that the exhibition, titled “Eyes of the Storm,” will help mark the gallery's reopening in June after a three-year…

Asharq Al-Awsat

National Portrait Gallery reopening to include unseen Paul McCartney photos

The display will help launch the gallery’s summer programme.

The Independent UK

Unseen Beatles pictures to go on show as National Portrait Gallery reopens

Previously unseen photographs taken by Paul McCartney at the height of Beatlemania are going on show in the re-opened National Portrait Gallery.

Evening Standard

Former Falkirk Provost is named personality of the year by arts group

Sky Arts Portrait Artist winner is also celebrated by Falkirk Arts Network

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National Portrait Gallery flushes £3m down the loo, buying a former WC

NPG plans to transform former Victorian lavatory into a gallery space

Evening Standard

Emily Brontë's death needs to be radically reimagined – an expert explains

Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.

The Conversation

National Portrait Gallery announces reopening date in June

A new wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits in nine galleries as part of the redevelopment.

The Independent UK

Is the writing on the wall for the British Museum’s BP deal?

Chair of the museum, George Osborne, says it no longer wants to be a ‘destination for climate protest’

The Guardian - UK

Descendants of Algernon Marsden help save Tissot portrait of great grandfather

The Victorian painting by Jacques Joseph ‘James’ Tissot was valued at £2.4 million.

The Independent UK

‘Emancipation’ producer called out for showing off photo of enslaved man at premiere

LOS ANGELES — Joey McFarland, a producer on Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” apparently did not think through the ramifications of showing off the original 1863 “scourged back” photo of an enslaved man at the film’s L.A. premiere Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

National Portrait Gallery to get new wing as part of revamp

Blavatnik Wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits when London institution reopens in 2023

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Evening Standard

National Portrait Gallery will get new wing as part of refurbishment

The Blavatnik Wing will host portraits of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the Bronte sisters and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

The Guardian - UK

‘At 52, I abandoned everything, every friend, every family member’: the top official who escaped Scientology

After 45 years in the church, Mike Rinder became disillusioned and walked out. He talks about daily life in the organisation, being disciplined in ‘the Hole’, and his hopes of reconnecting with his children

WEKU

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic process rather than her life

The Guardian - UK

National Gallery entrance revamp row recalls King Charles’ ‘carbuncle’

Architects’ society forced to defend scheme to remodel entrance from ‘unjustified’ criticism

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The Guardian - UK

First show in 100 years of disabled Victorian artist Sarah Biffin opens in London

Accomplished miniaturist and a household name in 19th century was born without arms and hands

Evening Standard

Taylor Wessing Prize: Lockdown laundry portraits win prestigious photography award

Clémentine Schneidermann won for photos of her neighbour hanging out washing

The Guardian - UK

Photos of lockdown mundanity win £15,000 Taylor Wessing prize

Judges commend Clémentine Schneidermann for simple series capturing neighbour in Wales

The Canberra Times

Former National Portrait Gallery director Angus Trumble dies

Angus Trumble served as National Portrait Gallery director from 2014 to 2018.

The Guardian - UK

Guardian and Observer photographer Eamonn McCabe dies aged 74

Tributes paid to one of the most celebrated newspaper photographers and picture editors of his generation

The Canberra Times

Your votes are in: National Portrait Gallery prize winners announced

The People's Choice Award winners have been announced.

The Guardian - UK

V&A drops financial ties with Sackler family over links with opioids

London museum bows to years of pressure and removes signs bearing name of family associated with OxyContin crisis

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