The embargo on commentary on the newly configured Sainsbury Wing was lifted at noon today. I was pleased to be able to read Ben Flatman’s immensely careful and scrupulous account of what has been done online, as below. Two things are clear: the first is that Annabelle Selldorf and both Alasdair Travers and Jon Wright of Purcell approached the task with immense care – I had not known that Jon Wright went to Philadelphia to talk to Denise Scott Brown about the project; and that it is currently unclear exactly what the effect is of the changes to the entrance hall apart from making it very much more spacious and may not be until the building opens to the public on Saturday, the 201st. anniversary of the foundation of the National Gallery.

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