Portraits put spotlight on ‘the people who pay the price for everyone else’s peace’

Works by certain artists often become symbolic of a particular era. This is an angle which has proved very popular with visitors to London’s National Gallery in recent years and, this month, welcomes

The National Gallery is launching an international architectural competition for a brand-new wing. The competition is the third stage of an ambitious masterplan commissioned by the Gallery in 2018 and

From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t

Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge

Until 8 February 2026 The House of Music display presents a series of recent paintings by Peter Doig, exploring the intersections of visual art and music. The works are shaped by Doig’s long engagemen

The arts sector has long been unthinkingly in thrall to the supposedly “progressive” left but a coherent, coordinated, conservative strategy could, and should, shift the consensus