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Sculpture, oops, sorry.

Posted on 11 September 2009 (0)

It was Baudelaire who opined that sculpture is “the stuff you bump into when you step backwards to admire a painting.” When the British Museum first deigned to open its doors to the general public somebody bumped into a Greek amphora, knocked it off its pedestal and smashed it to pieces. It was the one [...]

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