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Strange decline of the British Museum

The other day, on the anniversary of my father's death, I paid a trip back to the British Museum to see some of the things we used to enjoy together.

The Prints and Drawings Room used to let us both in – child though I was – to leaf through paintings and drawings of clouds by John Constable.

Now there is a deadly little exhibition there – . Yawnsville. ‘Four post-war German and Austrian artists.’ A legacy, I suppose, of the disastrous period when Hartwig Fischer was the

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