Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your Problems Solved | 19 November 2005

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 19 November 2005

Dear Mary…

Q. As an elderly art-lover, I was thrilled to be invited to the private views of exhibitions by both Julian Barrow and his brother Andrew. Alas, I see these take place on the very same night next week and, as I am now nearly 90 and practically bedridden, I really cannot risk the mid-evening trek from Julian’s landscapes at the Fine Art Society to Andrew’s alphabet collages at the Rebecca Hossack in Fitzrovia.

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