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Museums

The Fan Museum (12 Crooms Hill, London SE10) A woman's weapon John Henshall P erseverance is a marvellous quality, as useful in the arts as in anything else. Readers with doubts......

Sale-rooms

Tales of Cork Street Alistair McAlpine I n 1973, the last time that the world's art market fell on hard times, I owned a book- shop in Cork Street, trying at that time, rather......