I went to Andrea Rose’s leaving party last night.   It was held not in the British Council, where she has been the long-standing Director of Visual Arts (she joined the British Council in 1979), but just outside, with hordes of the art world present.   It seemed appropriately symbolic, since there were many references to the fact that she was a formidable member of staff and not always in agreement with official policy.   She will be a great loss.