Freedom, According to Azzedine Alaïa and Arthur Elgort A dazzling new book celebrates the joyful, lively collaboration of a legendary designer and a master photographer
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London’s cultural scene post-lockdown is wide awake, but a giant in Trafalgar Square is only now emerging from a long slumber: after a three-year renovation, the National Portrait Gallery reopens this month. Get ready for new entrances, new gallery spaces, the new Learning Centre, and the debut of a comprehensive re-hang of the gallery’s collection. Not only will Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and the Brontë sisters (with their poor painted-out column of a brother) be back, thank heavens, they have new company on the walls. Photographs from the gallery’s collection of 250,000 prints will be newly integrated into what curator Clare Freestone calls “the whole story of portraiture in Britain”—as told by the gallery and addressing histories of empire, women, protest, fashion, street, and pop culture in innovative ways. READ ON
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