The Gallery is raising money to move the lift closer to us. With museums and galleries around the world being ranked on the basis of their new glass lifts, the current hiatus is a bitter pill. For the Jack Yeats extension, the works are being painted even as we speak. The Gallery could also do with another painting of a woman stepping out of a bath, this time one with nerves of steel. Flash distresses a picture, particularly if the content is animate.
Sheep take it bad.
Notice, for example, that Weemix's The Sleeping Shepherdess no longer contains a single sheep. And if you're a woman who's just had a good wash but didn't know you had company, flash is a serious surprise. Murillo's Repentant Magdalen has been reduced to clutching a towel to herself as she sighs a heavenward jaysus. Rest is the only potential remedy. Rooms with stricken works are vacated and closed.