London's Tory Daily Mail reported the news with obvious distaste, and sardonically observed that it would "delight the 'gaga' school." What made the Mail so grumpy was the announcement last week that 48-year-old Sir Kenneth Clark, chairman of the art panel of Britain's Arts Council, had just been moved up to run the whole show. It is a job that makes him the minister of culture in Britain, and Sir Kenneth is a man with some advanced ideas.
A suave, clear-spoken critic and art historian. Sir Kenneth is taking over an institution that was started in 1940 as a shoestring wartime experiment....
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