Jonathan Jones was right about the John Singer Sargent show at Tate Britain | Brief letters

Art criticism | Council funding | Cuckoo confusion | A cracking teacher | Dominic Raab’s career Cally Blackman’s support for the curating of the Tate’s John Singer Sargent exhibition is very strong and firmly based in her extensive scholarship in fashion history (Letters, 23 February). But I think she has misunderstood Jonathan Jones’s critique. The show is about Sargent paintings, and Jones’s critique is not based on snobbish old ideas of art appreciation. It is ab