Simon Schama announces portrait gallery displays with attack on selfies

Historian will help to create displays exploring portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in London in the autumnSimon Schama would like people to start looking intently at the faces of strangers – preferable, he believes, to the “quick dumbness” of selfies.The historian was speaking at the launch for new displays he will help to create in the autumn at the National Portrait Gallery. Continue reading...