One contender was the new national portrait gallery being housed in the former American embassy, opposite Parliament.

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As part of the restoration, the abbey's top floor is being made into a gallery which will display items relating to its 800-year history, with new learning spaces created for educational groups to use.

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Perhaps the spirit is trying to tell us that the person the bones belong to was found dead not murdered before being placed behind the Sculpture Gallery fireplace?

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Dr Penny said he anticipated being asked why a UK national gallery was spending such large sums to acquire works by a foreign painter.

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Among their grievances is the closure of their gallery - and a sense of being ignored.

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But the latest, designed to regenerate the heart of Sheffield by building new squares, a gallery and winter gardens, is being financed largely by the private sector.

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Mr. Ping added that despite being away from the heart of the arts scene, the gallery in Ridgewood has been a success.

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He was occasionally indiscreet: in a speech to the parliamentary press gallery a year after taking office he spoke of it being the "Frustration Parliament", and referred to some Conservatives who, he said, had got in by mistake and lost their previous jobs and pensions.

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The public gallery was cleared after repeated interruptions, and Labour councillors walked out in protest at the public being told to leave.

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Few Americans have seen "The Scream" in person: The version being sold at Sotheby's was last in the U.S. at Washington's National Gallery of Art in the early 1990s.

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