National Gallery: a crushingly dull documentary that lacks an eye for art

Rather than letting the paintings speak for themselves, Frederick Wiseman’s insipid and elitist documentary just gets in the way of the National Gallery’s treasuresThe National Gallery is a magic world in the centre of London. Outside it, on Trafalgar Square, street performers entertain tourists and contemporary art comes and goes on the fourth plinth. On the other side of the gallery, established in 1824 as a free public museum of European paintings, lie Leicester Square and Soho. But insid