It was the press view for the new look Warburg Institute this morning, the renovation done by Haworth Tompkins with extreme sensitivity to what was required – opening it up, creating a new exhibition space, but retaining its original atmosphere.  I have written about it at greater length for the November issue of The Critic.

Meanwhile, I am posting a photograph of the Coade stone cast of the Nine Muses which was retrieved from the previous house on the site after it was bombed in the War, a good example of cultural memory, the central purpose of the Institute:-