Top staff at the National Portrait Gallery spent years discussing a Led Zeppelin exhibition
The director of the National Portrait Gallery was involved in talks about a Led Zeppelin exhibition which ultimately never took place.
Some of the most senior staff at one of the UK’s most prestigious art galleries spent years discussing a landmark exhibition about Led Zeppelin to be held in 2018, LedZepNews can reveal.
Nicholas Cullinan, the director of London’s National Portrait Gallery, and senior staff including the gallery’s head of exhibitions were involved in discussions regarding a potential show about Led Zeppelin to mark the band’s fiftieth anniversary in 2018.
In June, LedZepNews revealed the existence of a 2017 proposal produced by the gallery for a major Led Zeppelin exhibition. Premium subscribers to the LedZepNews Substack can read that full document here.
Now we’re able to report on the years-long conversation inside the gallery over the proposed exhibition in this exclusive story for premium subscribers to the LedZepNews Substack. Not a premium subscriber yet? You can upgrade your subscription for $5 a month which helps support LedZepNews content such as our investigation into the filming of Led Zeppelin in 1970.
LedZepNews received 13 pages of email correspondence from the National Portrait Gallery following a Freedom of Information request. The emails show senior involvement in considerations of a Led Zeppelin exhibit following a detailed proposal titled “Led Zeppelin at Fifty” made by a gallery employee in 2017.
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