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FRIDAY 2 JANUARY
Presented by John Wilson
SAVING ART FOR THE NATION
In a special edition of Front Row John Wilson asks the question ‘whose art is it anyway’?
In 2003 two British galleries raised £33 million in a bid to stop Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks and Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai being sold abroad. As auction prices continue to rise, John asks whether museums will soon be forced out of the international market by billionaire collectors and whether we should care that paintings leave the country if they are going to good homes in museums abroad.
Are museums heading towards crisis? Sir David Attenborough, Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota and National Gallery director Charles Saumarez Smith are among the guests as Front Row asks can – or should - the nation’s art be saved?
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