Calvin Po

Our great art institutions have reduced British history to a scrapheap of shame

New displays at Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery are pious distortions of history

Guilt frames: ‘Portrait of Mai (Omai)’, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c.1776. Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London and Getty
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