The directors cut

All change at the National Portrait Gallery, where a thoroughly modern curator is pushing a brave new representation of Britain. Director Nicholas Cullinan was appointed in 2015 and now, after a meticulous three-year overhaul to restore the Gallery’s 19th-century glory, the museum is back and better than ever. Bianca Jagger, Marc Quinn, Tracey Emin, Oswald Boateng and Grayson Perry attended the reopening party this week to have a butchers at Cullinan’s prize art asset, Joshua Reynolds’ spectacular, life-size Portrait of Mai (Omai), featuring the first non-white sitter in Georgian London, and enjoy a DJ set by Courtney Love. Friends with everyone from Miuccia Prada to Sadiq Khan, Cullinan brings an “art for the people by the people” vibe. Egalitarianism has never looked sexier.

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