It’s a brutal time for London’s National Gallery, but also a brilliant time to visit

Tickets to the famous museum are selling well, but with capacity reduced masterworks remain gloriously uncrowded
Plus London galleries to visit this bank holiday weekendOn 10 July at 10.55am there were 20 people in the queue for the National Gallery, which had just reopened after 111 days of Covid-related closure. The Sainsbury Wing entrance bristled with the now-familiar precautions – extended barriers, hand sanitiser, extra staff – and we passed through to a movingly warm welcome.S