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Charli xcx portrait added to National Portrait Gallery collection

Pop star is celebrated as ‘one of the defining cultural figures of her generation’ by gallery, which acquires Brat-era portrait by Harley WeirA portrait of Charli xcx has been added to the National Po

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Marilyn Monroe, la mujer más retratada del mundo

Con motivo de la celebración del centenario de Marilyn Monroe, acaba de publicarse ‘The Lost Photographs, the Last Interview’, de Weldon Owen. ¿Cómo es posible que sigan apareciendo documentos inédito

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Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal famine

Turner prize winner Helen Cammock withdraws piece after 50 peers criticise claim former PM ‘starved people’An artwork by a Turner prize-winning artist has been removed from the National Portrait Galle

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Artist defends Churchill video at National Portrait Gallery after being accused of ‘barefaced lie’

Helen Cammock says her comments blaming wartime leader for Bengal famine were intended to create ‘dialogue’ A Turner prize-winning artist accused of telling a “barefaced lie” about Winston Churchill i

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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait review – the radiant, uncontainable star she always wanted to be

National Portrait Gallery, LondonThe actor’s life in pictures, from mousey-haired teen to American icon to her shocking death at 36, beams with the charm that defined a century. But why aren’t we show

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From bikinis to cat bowls: how museum gift stores became the place to shop

Curated edits mean people are treating museums as stand-alone shopping destinations rather than simply exit points First it came for bookshops. Then your favourite coffee shop. Now there is a new fron

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The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art | Isabel Brooks

They often boast thousands of great works – but who needs that? I can only really engage with one or two before feeling exhaustedVisiting an art gallery always goes the same way for me. I look at one

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‘The original triple threat’: two exhibitions celebrate Marilyn Monroe as creative pioneer

BFI and National Portrait Gallery to mark centenary of the film star’s birth with ‘the summer of Marilyn’Though often reduced to a sex symbol frozen in time, or a tragic figure at the centre of severa