Please note alternative access routes are in place for entry to the Gallery from the visitor car park from Monday 24 August to Wednesday 26 August. Please follow signage and directions from staff.

This week it is impossible not to contemplate the ways in which France has touched many Australian lives.

To celebrate his family bicentenary, Malcolm Robertson looks at the portraiture legacy left by his ancestors.

This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.