Tag: National Portrait Gallery
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 @ The National Portrait Gallery. London
The Beatle (Sir) Paul McCartney played bass guitar in the most successful bands of all time but he also shared primary songwriting with John Lennon. That songwriting partnership with Lennon remains the most successful in history. He was also married to the late Linda McCartney who we believe he met when in the late 1960s,…
National Portrait Gallery of Australia celebrates WORLDPRIDE 2023 with stunning queer portraiture
Sydney continues to set extraordinarily high standards for 2023 World Pride as each day we keep discovering even more must-see/must-do events. Today it’s the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra who are celebrating Pride by sharing brilliant, beautiful, and bold portraits featuring LGBTQIA+ sitters from their collection, like the one above of Leigh…
Brit actor Russell Tovey & Gallerist Robert Diament talk Queer Art
Missing out on being able to go to galleries and museums to check art? So are we, but London’s National Portrait Gallery are doing their best to ensure we can at least get a ‘fix’ during Lockdown They invited Talk Art hosts, Brit heartthrob actor Russell Tovey and Gallerist Robert Diament to discuss some…
David Hockney plus The Bright Young Things
Art like Life will just go on, and in the case of these two excellent new Exhibits at the National Portrait Galley in London they should be still there when we stop self-quarantining. Sir David Hockney is probably the greatest living queer artist in the world. At the age of 82 he is still…
Queer Perspectives 10
For the past ten years Queer Perspectives at London’s National Portrait Gallery have invited guests who identify as LGBTQI to select, discuss and highlight works in their Collections and beyond which have a personal resonance. This innovative and inclusive quarterly event hosted by artist and curator Sadie Lee is going to celebrate its diverse decade,…
