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Published: 1 August 2008

Dreary

• IT is entirely right that the former Reading Room at the British Museum should now be a venue for a major exhibition on the life and work of Hadrian.
The room itself is modelled on the Pantheon in Rome, Hadrian’s magnificent exercise in expressing cosmology in architecture.
The great temple still stands almost intact because it has long since been a Christian church. With its active life over, the Reading Room has now become rather a sad and dreary expanse, and needs new purpose.
Despite what Dan Cruikshank and Brian Sewell may think, perhaps it has already found it.
JAMES COLLINS
Belsize Grove, NW3

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