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A brief introduction to the artist bringing our Bicentenary commission to life.

The opening of 'Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London' at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo will be postponed as a result of the Japanese Government's advice to close its national museums as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of coronavirus.

In the July 2007 podcast, from the slave trade to smiling Dutchmen - two new exhibitions: 'Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals' and 'Scratch the Surface'. Plus singing bus drivers hit the Gallery.

Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski performs a solo recital celebrating the art of Velasco and landscapes of Mexico. Friday, 18 July 2025, 7 - 8 pm. Onsite tickets from £7.

Isn't that a National Gallery painting? Find out which works have appeared in culture, from TV shows to album covers.

By Lily Middleton

In the Episode Fifty One (January 2011) podcast, art in the making: artist Ben Johnson at work. Plus looking good in Van Dyck’s day, and Veronese’s Saint Helena.

To mark Freud’s centenary, we met three students from the Slade School of Fine Art to hear how a new generation of figurative artists relate to Lucian Freud and his work

Read about the National Gallery's AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, offered in collaboration with University of York.