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Exhibitions 1

Grinling Gibbons (Victoria and Albert Museum, till 24 January) Showmanship of a master Annabel Ricketts I n 1671, while out for a walk, John Eve- lyn stumbled upon a young man......

Exhibitions 2

Master Drawings from the Hermitage and Pushkin Museums (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, till 10 January) Negative pleasure Roger Kimball P eople who write about the sublime......