Less than three years after leaving the Tate to become the curator of Modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Nicholas Cullinan is heading back to London to run the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), the institution announced today, 6 January.
Cullinan’s first directorship, at 37 he is the second youngest of the NPG’s 12 directors since it was founded in 1856. Roy Strong was just 32 when he became director in 1967.
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