Stephen McGinty - Who should save our art for the nation?

LIKE a parent to a little boy, each year the Scottish Government gives the National Galleries of Scotland, the princely sum of £1,260,000 to be spent, not on comics or gobstoppers, but on new works of art.

So, if, again, like a little boy, the NGS placed the sum in a giant piggy bank it would take roughly 40 years until they had raised the necessary sum required to purchase Titian's Diana and Actaeon , one of the two paintings the 7th Duke of ...