To celebrate its 200th anniversary, London's National Gallery has recently revamped its Sainsbury Wing, a transformation that has taken three years and $113 million. It was an arduous process ...

Annabelle Selldorf’s renovations of the Sainsbury Wing allow it to comfortably accommodate more visitors while better integrating it with the rest of the London museum, whose superb collection has ...

In the case of the National Gallery ... The revolving doors to the wing have been replaced with automatic glass doors and discreet, integrated metal detectors. The main change is that two new ...

Curators: Christine Riding, director of collections, and Per Rumberg, head of curatorial The Sainsbury Wing reopens on 10 May as the main entrance to the National Gallery, London. Open daily 10am ...

This week sees the long anticipated public debut of the spruced-up Sainsbury Wing at London’s National Gallery. The occasion brings a splashy close to a year of bicentenary celebrations ...

The National ... Wing at the National Gallery is reopening on May 10 2025. Can’t wait? Don’t worry, the rest of the National Gallery is still open and has some great exhibitions on. This new ...

In the late 1980s, the Sainsbury brothers, operators of the U.K.’s second largest supermarket chain, bankrolled a project to build a new wing at London’s National Gallery. The museum needed ...

LONDON – Hidden in a pillar ... When the Sainsbury Wing was originally built, the director of the National Gallery was Neil MacGregor. In an interview published this week with The Art Newspaper ...

In the 1980s, British grocery store magnate Lord John Sainsbury, Baron of Preston Candover, spent tens of millions funding a new wing of London’s National Gallery. He did not like one aspect of ...

John Sainsbury disagreed with the design of his family’s namesake wing at London’s National Gallery. Three decades later, after his death, his critique rang anew. A hallway with columns at the ...

The controversial, Selldorf Architects–led remodeling of the Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates–designed Sainsbury Wing (1991) at the National Gallery in London has turned up an easter egg of sorts.