In praise of...
February 10 2012
Picture: Credit Suisse
...Luke Syson [above], the National Gallery curator of the Leonardo exhibition. Jonathan Jones, in The Guardian, rightly lays on the acclaim:
Syson has proved that courage and passion are the true virtues of a great curator. His exhibition has gone but it will never be forgotten. He too is leaving the National Gallery to work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. But he has left an amazing legacy in London: an exhibition that should change the way exhibitions are thought about from now on. I hope we see many more such intimate and soulful revelations of what knowledgeable curators love about their artists.
To see why we don't have a comments section here at AHN, check out some of the bitter bile beneath Jones' article. And those are the moderated ones...
