14-06-2017 23:00 via theartnewspaper.com

Archive reveals Sewell and MacGregor spat

A spat between the late Brian Sewell and Neil MacGregor is revealed in a letter in the Sewell archive, which has just been acquired by the Paul Mellon Centre in London. Sewell had published a review in Tatler of Bodylinesan exhibition staged at the National Gallery in 1987, when MacGregor was directorcomplaining that the catalogue was ill-written, ungrammatical, ill-considered. He was almost inclined to say that no one should go to the exhibition, for once again the gallery has tossed a grand e
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