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    BIRD’S WORDS

    Apr 18, 2022 3 minutes

    There must be a declining number of old art codgers like me, self-appointed historians, who when going to the City of London’s Barbican Centre find it still conjures up visions of the incredible burning buildings of Silk Street. Bombed in the Second World War and then revived as the largest arts centre of its kind in Europe in the early 1980s, the Barbican was a gift to the nation from the City of London.

    But the World War 2 reference is not wide of the mark when considering the brilliant new exhibition running at

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