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Around Town: Festivals
Also on at National Portrait Gallery
- The Queen: Art and Image, Until Sun Oct 21
- Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People, Until Sun Jun 3
- Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson, Until Sun Sep 16
- Spotlight on Peter Rand: Ten Photographs from the 1960s, Until Sun Sep 16
- The Queen: Art & Image, Until Sun Oct 21
- Road to 2012, Jul 19-Sep 23
Events on today
- From Cradle to Crown: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Walk,
- Guided Walk in Hampstead,
- John Piper: The Gyselynck Collection, River and Rowing Museum
- Radicals, Religion and Rivers,
- The Total London Experience,
- Oxford, Stratford, the Cotswolds and Warwick Castle,
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'Girl with a White Dog', 1950-51, by Lucian Freud - © Tate, London 2012
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A Late Shift Extra event for Museums at Night. Activities and events inspired by the NPG's 'Lucian Freud Portraits' exhibition include life drawing, walks, talks, music, poetry and film.
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