2009 sees the 60th birthday of model, actree and singer Twiggy (born Lesley Hornby) and to celebrate the NPG is exhibiting a series of photographs that document her life and career.
There are images by, among others, Cecil Beaton, Bert Stern and Norman Parkinson.
After his death in 2011 comes the National Portrait Gallery's survey of the portraits of Lucian Freud - one of Britain's best loved artists. Freud is one of the major names in post-war British art. His...
To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee the National Portrait Gallery is hosting an exhibition that focuses on images of the queen from throughout her sixty-year reign. On show are works by artists as diverse...
After 2011's major solo show over at the Whitechapel, Thomas Struth is back in town with a series of family portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. Until 20.01.13.
The National Gallery hosts a comparative exhibition that explores the links between the works of JMW Turner and seventeen century painter Claude (Lorrain). Of late, the National has excelled at these kind...
In celebration of the National Gallery's recent acquisition of the great Titian masterpiece Diana and Callisto, it's currently on show in Room 1, and free to visit. Until 01.07.12.
An exhibition that places one of Titian's earliest known works - the wonderful Flight into Egypt - alongside paintings by his Venetian contemporaries. Until 19.08.12.
All singing, high kicking fun is the order of the day in this sexy, sleazy musical set in prohibition era Chicago, and following a showgirl named Roxie Hart as she tries to clear her name of a murder she...
A group of men in an elite club gather to eat, drink and smash chandeliers. But the top dog isn't as well received as he likes to think and there may be a coup in the offing. Laura Wade's much acclaimed...
Cor blimey! Cue east end accents galore in this play about gangsters starring Owain Arthur and Jodie PrengerOne Man, Two Guvnors, (despite being in the running for worst title ever) is in fact hilarious....