Yoshitomo Nara at Hayward Gallery, Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern, Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery, and ...

London’s National Portrait Gallery has purchased a former public bathroom, billed as an “Iconic Island,” seen here in September 2022. Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images.

Britain’s National Portrait Gallery reopened Thursday after a three-year, $53-million renovation. Raising the money in the current climate was tough. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London On a ...

T he National Portrait Gallery is much loved in the U.K. as both a distinguished art museum and a vibrant, even rhapsodic record of the country’s history. In many ways, it’s our history, too.

The National Portrait Gallery’s newly opened Weston Wing. Photo: Dave Parry Three years ago London’s National Portrait Gallery closed its doors for its £41 million renovation.

In 2009, the National Gallery in London and National Galleries of Scotland jointly bought Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon.” Three years later, they followed that with the joint acquisition of ...