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Yet Beaton’s whimsical early years as a photographer deserve special attention. Opening at the National Portrait Gallery on 12 March, Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things traces Beaton’s artistic ...
Organised by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, Cecil Beaton: Portraits is the first major overview of Beaton’s portraits since Sir Roy Strong’s ground-breaking exhibition at the ...
Cecil Beaton’s portraits from 1920s and 1930s Britain will go on show at a major new exhibition. The National Portrait Gallery will open an exhibition on the fashion and society photographer’s ...
The National Portrait Gallery shut for three years for ... whose work tears bodies apart and rebuilds them in shocking, beautiful ways. Cecil Beaton was a jack of all trades and master of many ...
The space given over to 'Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party' at the Garden Museum is smaller than Beaton’s own drawing room, but its ...
His archive is spotlit in the upcoming exhibition Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things at the National Portrait Gallery, bringing together what Dr Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National ...
Martha Kearney invites ten leading figures of today to the newly refurbished National Portrait Gallery to champion ... and the celebrated photographer Cecil Beaton. After three years of closure ...
Other shows launching next year include Cecil ... Portrait Award, described as “a snapshot of portrait painting today” also returns to the NPG (10 July-12 October). In 2023, gallery faced ...
Cecil Beaton / Victoria and Albert Museum ... He was about to open a seminal exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, the first time a photographer and a living artist was shown, and he ...
The image was first displayed briefly in an exhibition of Beaton’s portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in November 1968. (At the time, it was the first retrospective of a living photographer in ...
On September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II—the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the United Kingdom—died at the age of 96. It was one of the 21st century’s most memorable moments: the ...