Andrew Lambirth

The Imperial War Museum finds a deadly place to display first world war masterpieces

Plus: at the Morley Gallery it is the popular arts that have produced some of most poignant and unfamiliar images

‘A Battery Shelled’, 1919, by Percy Wyndham Lewis [© iwm art 2747] 
issue 13 September 2014

The Imperial War Museum has reopened after a major refit and looks pretty dapper, even though it was overrun by hordes when I visited (it was still the school holidays). There’s a new and effective restaurant, inevitably, but also a new sense of spaciousness.

I am not concerned here with weapons of mass destruction, merely with the record of the damage they inflict.

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