One of the tasks of U.N.E.S.C.O. (the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation) will, no doubt, be to increase and develop cultural ties between nations. Meanwhile, a good deal can be done in that direction by bilateral action. The presence in this country of a delegation from Chicago (its members were enter- tained to luncheon by the Government on Monday) to select pictures for an exhibition of British art in the great Middle West centre is very much to be welcomed. Pictures will, of course, only go to Chicago so far as their British owners, public and private, are willing to lend them, but no difficulty seems to be arising about that. The exhibition will concentrate on three painters, the choice, which is interesting, falling on Constable (it is hoped to secure " The Hay'- wain "), Hogarth (with, if possible, " Marriage a la Mode ") and Turner. Nothing, incidentally, would be more instructive than an exhibition in London of the best examples of contemporary American art.
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