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An ideal museum show would . . . be a mating of Brideshead Revisited . . ., with House & Garden. . . ., provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Source: On The Treasure Houses of Britain exhibit at Washington DC's National Gallery of Art, in Time, 11 Nov 85
-- Robert Hughes, (Jul 28 1938-2012), Australian critic; He is an Art critic for Time magazine, 1970-; wrote Art of Australia, 1966 and The Fatal Shore, 1987.

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