Tag: National Portrait Gallery
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Virtual Exhibitions to Explore: March 2021
More exhibitions have been made available to view online to help ensure that you get your cultural fix. Music, Makers and Machines, Google Arts & Culture: this newly launched and permanent exhibition explores the history and legacy of electronic music by bringing together objects, interactive elements and tours around displays that feature parts of this […]
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Exhibitions Available to Visit…Online
Missing being able to pay a visit to a museum or art gallery? We have rounded up some of the exhibitions that you can discover from the comfort of your own home… An online guided tour of the National Gallery’s Artemisia exhibition: the National Gallery has made available its acclaimed exhibition looking at the work […]
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NEWS: The Duchess of Cambridge and National Portrait Gallery launch Hold Still Digital Exhibition
The Duchess of Cambridge and the National Portrait Gallery have unveiled the Hold Still digital exhibition, featuring one hundred portraits selected from 31,598 submissions during the project’s six-week entry period. The selected works in the digital exhibition concentrate on three core themes – Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness – to present […]
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Love London Love Culture’s Picks of the Week: Sunday 17th May 2020
Here’s a guide to some of what LLLC has been covering in the last week in case you missed anything… Review of Blackeyed Theatre’s production of Jane Eyre: having had to cancel its international tour early, Blackeyed Theatre kindly shared a recorded version of the production through the company’s Youtube channel. This is the last […]
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REVIEW: BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery (Online)
For the first time, the National Portrait Gallery has made its annual BP Portrait Award exhibition available to view online. As diverse as ever, the BP Portrait Award exhibition is chance to show just how portrait painting can express many different topics and emotions through different styles. Despite the fact that this year people can […]
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Love London Love Culture’s Picks of the Week: Sunday 10th May
Here’s our weekly guide to some of the most read posts on LLLC this week. Review of National Theatre production of Frankenstein: perhaps unsurprisingly given the popularity of the production when it was experienced live, this is LLLC’s most read post of the week. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, this powerful version of […]
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NEWS: Winner of the 2020 BP Portrait Prize Announced
The winner of this year’s 2020 BP Portrait Prize was announced through the National Portrait Gallery’s social channels. Artist Jiab Prachakul has won the prestigious first prize in the BP Portrait Award 2020 for her work ‘Night Talk’ which depicts her close friends in a bar in Berlin. Prachakul wins £35,000 and a commission, at the National […]
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Love London Love Culture’s Picks of the Week: Sunday 26th April
Here’s a guide to a few of the most popular reads on LLLC this week… Review of One Voice by Siobhan Dillon: we listened to the gorgeous new album from the West End star, for which the proceeds are going towards Breast Cancer Haven charity. It is well worth a listen if you are looking […]
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NEWS: National Portrait Gallery Announce Shortlist for BP Portrait Award 2020
The announcement comes as the venue moves the exhibition online – available to view from the 5th May. Three artists have now been shortlisted for this year’s BP Portrait Prize 2020, which is set to open as a virtual exhibition from the 5th May due to the current closure of the National Portrait Gallery. The […]
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Review Round Up: David Hockney: Drawing From Life, National Portrait Gallery
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for this latest David Hockney exhibition. Evening Standard: **** “Right now over at the Royal Academy there are line portraits by Picasso that show greater clarity, sureness and economy of line (there’s an early etching of a naked Hockney facing an indifferent Picasso; he liked to pay […]