Michael Jackson: On the Wall exhibition explores images of the star

Michael Jackson: On the Wall exhibition explores images of the star

By Vincent Dowd

The king of pop meets the king of pop art: Andy Warhol's 1984 painting of Michael Jackson

Image: ANDY WARHOL/NPG

It's nine years since Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles yet his fame remains undiminished and his records still sell in huge numbers.

The singer would have turned 60 this August - and to mark the milestone a slew of new books and re-releases are being published.

But the National Portrait Gallery in London had a different idea: to investigate how visual artists have used the image of one of music's greatest showmen.

Nicholas Cullinan took over as director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London in 2015. Before then, he had curated exhibitions on subjects ranging from Venetian glass to Edvard Munch and Henri Matisse.

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