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From Zineb Sedira’s anticolonial cinema to Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s immersive archives

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The eighth episode, On Context, is now available, presented in collaboration with dunhill and the National Portrait Gallery

The third episode, On Photography, is now available, presented in collaboration with dunhill and the National Portrait Gallery

The Curator of Frieze Masters Talks sits down with one of the pioneers of British Pop Art to discuss his portraits, postcards and the uncanny

Sales, and the reopened National Portrait Gallery, suggest that old art is hot right now. Meet the collectors and gallerists driving this trend who explore why the buyers of Old Masters seem to be getting younger 

BY Melanie Gerlis |

London’s institutions – including the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery, the V&A and Tate Britain – are evolving in the work they show and the way they show it. But what’s driving this cultural shift?

BY Farah Nayeri |

An exhibition aims to give voice to the ‘fallen women’ at the heart of the Victorian brotherhood

BY Chloë Ashby |

The historic image was taken by Tyler Mitchell — the first African-American to shoot the cover of Vogue  

BY Kadish Morris |

Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Anish Kapoor, Gillian Wearing and Mark Wallinger have co-signed a letter addressed to the gallery’s director

BY Frieze News Desk |

As five Turner Prize winners denounce BP sponsorship, the arts community is rising up to address the climate emergency

BY Mel Evans |

A new book published to coincide with her retrospective at London’s National Portrait Gallery includes a rare glimpse of the artist’s workspace

BY Figgy Guyver |

A group of leading artists and a judge of the annual BP portrait prize have urged the London institution to cut ties with the oil company

BY Frieze News Desk |

A remarkable exhibition of tiny paintings at London’s National Portrait Gallery

BY Tim Smith-Laing |

As leading arts institutions decline donations over opioid links, the artist and activist on why the age of using culture for ‘reputation laundering’ is over

BY Chris Sharratt |

The Guggenheim in New York is the latest major arts institution to refuse Sackler money

BY Frieze News Desk |

2.3 million people visited the gallery due in part to the portraits of the former US President and First Lady

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In further news: New Museum workers vote to unionize; Amanda Schmitt appeals dismissal of Artforum suit

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In further news: National Portrait Gallery’s visitor decline due to counting ‘error’; Berlin’s Arratia Beer gallery closes

The new initiative will loan celebrated National Portrait Gallery artworks to towns across the UK that they are most closely associated with