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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown

National Portrait Gallery introduces micro-charge for Taylor Wesson prize

The National Portrait Gallery has been charging £2 to get into its Taylor Wessing portraiture prize exhibition – and that's no bad thing. It was free last year, but, let's face it, how many people are going to begrudge paying the price of a coffee to get in ? Given the current financial situation, this kind of micro-charging is surely a sensible move: the day I was there, the gallery was chocker, and a spokesman for the gallery said the show has drawn 21,000 visitors in its first month. He added that so far no one had complained.

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