I AM NOT NECESSARILY the best person to write about the newly re-opened National Portrait Gallery as I was Director from 1994 to 2002, so may inevitably be over-protective of its previous reconfiguration, including its Ondaatje Wing, designed by Sir Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones and opened in May 2000.
On the other hand, having spent eight years wrestling with the complexities of the layout of Ewan Christian’s late Victorian building and how to manage the displays, I may be in a better position than most to assess what Nicholas Cullinan, the NPG’s current
