Temporary road closures will be in place around the Gallery from 26 February during the Enlighten Festival.
A photographic portrait by Kerry Dundas captures the contemplative mind of visionary painter Godfrey Miller.
Exploring the photographs of Martin Schoeller, Michael Desmond delves into the uneasy pact that exists between celebrity and the camera.
Christopher Chapman previews the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009.
Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.
Henri-Cartier-Bresson invented the grammar for photographing life in the 20th century.
The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.
Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.
Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.
Despite once expressing a limited interest in the self portrait, the idea of it has figured strongly in much of Tracey Moffatt's work and has done so in some of her most distinctive and compelling images.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.