National Portrait Gallery
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Venue location
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Address:
National Portrait Gallery London
WC2H 0HE
- Phone:
020 7306 0055
- Website:
- Transport:
Tube: Charing Cross
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Map
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National Portrait Gallery
- London
WC2H 0HE - 020 7306 0055
- www.npg.org.uk
- 51.509399,-0.128453
- London
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National Portrait Gallery
- Categories:
Film. Attractions and museums. Art and design. Shopping. Art. Photography. Masterpiece. Painting. Renaissance art. Books and poetry
- Facilities:
Eating and drinking facilities. Bar. Café. Accessible facilities. Wheelchair access. Devices for the hearing-impaired. Signing services available. Entertainment facilities. Late night. Available for hire. Audio tours (multiple languages)
- Occasions:
Culture vultures. Famous art works. Take a tourist
What's on at National Portrait Gallery
Susan Aldworth: The Portrait Anatomised
Contemporary art
- Free
Inspired by MRI scans, these multi-image portraits of epileptic people are scientific and monochromatic explorations of the condition these sitters live with.
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Fri May 24
– Mon Sep 2 - National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE
Francis Goodman: Back in focus
Photography
- Free
Marking the centenary of the photographer’s birth, this retrospective display from Goodman’s extensive archive, present his photojournalistic work next to the fashion darlings he shot for the pages of Harper’s Bazaar.
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Sat May 25
– Sun Nov 3 - National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE
Man Ray Portraits
Art
This first ever major museum retrospective of Man Ray's photographic portraits highlights both his pioneering experimental photographic techniques and his choice of powerful and beautiful subjects, that include Lee Miller and Picasso. Ernest Hemingway...
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Sat May 25
– Sun May 26 - National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE
- £14; 60+ £13; £12 12-18s, registered une...
George Catlin: American Indian Portraits
Painting
- Rating: 3/5
- Free
A fascination with Native Americans was probably common among young boys in early nineteenth-century America; it wasn’t uncommon among the same demographic in late twentieth-century England, and we had rather fewer Native Americans. But George Catlin’s...
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Sat May 25
– Sun Jun 23 - National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE
Jacob Epstein: Portrait Sculptor
Sculpture
- Rating: 3/5
- Free
t’s a hundred years since Jacob Epstein set to work on ‘Rock Drill’, the startling, cyborg icon of Vorticism that sealed his reputation as a founding father of modern British sculpture (you can see a version of it at Tate Britain). Arriving at this small...
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Sat May 25
– Fri Nov 1 - National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE
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