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Art review: Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London

There is something curiously lacklustre about much of this show. Why? It is not that the majority of these representational portraits - there are more than 200 of them in all - are not good examples of their kind.

Art review: Leon Kossoff - London Landscapes, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

A small correction. Kossoff does not paint landscapes. He paints and draws the cityscapes of London, and he has been doing so for the last sixty years or so.

Tate Britain's triumphant new hang

Over the past few months, Tate Britain has been undergoing slow but highly significant changes. Two long corridors of rooms - to the left and right of the Duveen Galleries - have been entirely refurbished and re-hung. And this week, with the opening of th

Walk through British Art: the Tate Britain rehang - in pictures

The newly reworked Tate Britain permanent collection in London takes visitors from 1500 to the present, pitting artists from the same eras - such as LS Lowry and Lucian Freud - against each other

The Tate unveils walk-through of 500 years of British Art

Tate Britain has re-arranged the world's greatest collection of British Art so visitors can do a walk-through of the highlights of the past 500 years.

Britain's first female professional painter Mary Beale celebrated in radical Tate Britain rehang

Tate Britain has put on show two newly discovered works by Britain

Tate Britain displays England's first female professional painter

Paintings by 17th-century artist Mary Beale form part of gallery revamp that aims to showcase more female painters Two small paintings of a curly-haired boy, spotted in the window of a Parisian antiques shop and newly identified as tender sketches of her

Walk Through British Art, Tate Britain, review

Penelope Curtis's rehang of the gallery's historic collection is gloriously, satisfyingly, reactionary, says Richard Dorment.