The National Gallery's Pound 750m new wing has reignited London's art turf war
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"When should painters become old masters?" Former National Gallery director Philip Hendy put that question to then Tate director John Rothenstein almost 70 years ago. Founded in 1897 as the National Gallery's annexe for British Art, by the 1950s Tate had developed into a gallery of modern as well as British art. Rothenstein w