John Sainsbury, a donor to the National Gallery, had the last laugh

A person walks past the exterior view of The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London.

2024-08-28  536  中等

The writer was John Sainsbury of the supermarket Sainsbury’s—who, with his brothers, paid for the construction of the new wing, with its high-concept design. It opened in 1991; he died in 2022. His newly publicised note is an elegant solution to an age-old problem: what to do when artists’ visions clash with their patrons’ tastes?

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