Art Guide Australia

Canberra

Shakespeare to Winehouse

National Portrait Gallery

12 March—17 July

The National Portrait Gallery in London contains what is essentially a chronological history of Britain through portraiture. Yet the gallery is currently undergoing major refurbishments, and

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