Gabriele Finaldi is the National Gallery director who sees in the 200. “It’s an enormous privilege to be part of the generation that crosses the threshold into its third century,” he says.

T hroughout the National Gallery’s 200-year history, the London museum’s collection has served as both a cultural touchstone and a flashpoint for political swirl.In 1914, suffragist Mary ...

Sitting in Trafalgar Square, London's National Gallery features a labyrinth interior so large that it requires a color-coded map to navigate. The museum features paintings in the Western European ...