The National Gallery by Gabriele Finaldi5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Finaldi, previously the deputy director for collections and research at the Prado in Madrid, was to put the labor issues to rest. Among those planned, he said in the interview, are a show of Gauguin portraits in 2019.īut the first order of business for Mr. Rothschild described it as “not good” redevelop parts of the Trafalgar Square building, which dates to 1838 and put on three large exhibitions each year, instead of the current two. Finaldi said he planned to revamp the museum’s website - Ms. “It needs to be more exciting and more urgent,” she added. Finaldi has set out his objectives for the National Gallery, which draws more than six million visitors a year to view West European paintings from the 13th to the 19th century - but which Hannah Rothschild, the new chairwoman of the museum’s board of trustees, said “has been a bit sleepy.” A few bars of jazz or Brahms before heading home is a way of “restoring the mind,” he explained. Finaldi said in a recent interview, one of 14 appointments he had that day. “It’s nice, at the end of the day, to play a few notes,” Mr. The one striking difference is a baby grand piano wedged into one corner. Finaldi, who took up his post last August amid a contentious strike by gallery assistants, works at an antique leather-topped desk surrounded by bookshelves stacked with exhibition catalogs in multiple languages. LONDON - Gabriele Finaldi’s office at the National Gallery here looks more or less like a typical museum director’s. ![]()
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