11 MARCH 2000, page 44

Salerooms

What's going on at Spink? Susan Moore T o lose one department may be regard- ed as a misfortune; to lose three looks sus- piciously like carelessness. On 29 February, amid the......

Inelegant And Addled

John Martin Robinson says sloppy labelling has let down the NPG's splendid refurbishment T he 17th- and 18th-century collections on the second floor of the National Portrait......

Exhibitions

Chardin (Royal Academy, till 29 May) Out of step Martin Gaylord M essieurs, Messieurs, go easy,' thus Jean-Simeon Chardin, according to Diderot, once addressed those passing......