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‘Museums at Night’ Announced at the National Gallery on May 14

LONDON.- An evening of special events will take place at the National Gallery on Friday 14 May as part of Museums at Night celebrations. The Gallery will be open until 9pm, including current exhibitions Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey and Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light. There will be live music, special talks and guided tours programmed exclusively for the evening. The Danish writer Carsten Jensen will be discussing Christen Købke’s paintings. After his talk the author will be signing copies of his latest book, We, the Drowned (6pm, Sunley Room, free). A Wine, Nibbles and Talk event examines the Antwerp speciality of making paintings of private art collections (6.15pm, £18/£15 concessions, booking essential). Curator Anne Robbins will be giving two half-hour guided tours of the National Gallery’s current major exhibition Painting History: Delaroche and Lady