This, in the period before the Thatcher government defenestrated the art schools, was a time of high and exciting activity among young artists, and Robertson seized the moment by setting up, in two successive years, highly successful exhibitions for young artists.
A London franchise based at the O2 - and David Beckham, who is often seen at LA Lakers games, has expressed an interest in owning a team - would be an attractive prospect for Stern's organisation, who have just sold out a second successive NBA exhibition match at the O2 in October.
Her museum is joining with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York in coordinated, successive Turrell exhibitions beginning in May, offering an unusual opportunity to experience his immersive light environments that allow viewers to "see ourselves see," as he puts it.
From that moment, as the V&A's exhibition triumphantly demonstrates, successive generations of artists, designers and taste-makers have found that they too could repurpose Botticelli for their own ends without – and this is important and hard to explain – ever making him look trivial or banal.
Centering on one late painting, "Dancers at the Barre" (around 1900), and showing his treatments of ballet as successive variations on certain themes, the exhibition emphasizes his process: the work that this painter of workers put into his art.
Successive rooms of this sprawling, eye-caressing exhibition reveal that the stylistic innovations of Toulouse-Lautrec's poster designs from the 1880s to 1900 influenced myriad modernist artists, first in Paris, then later in other parts of Europe.
But as Hartford has gone into economic decline, so have the fortunes of the museum, with successive directors needing to severely cut staff and exhibition budgets to stay ahead of a broad drop in revenue.
Murray will hope for a similar effect when he begins this year's Wimbledon campaign on the back of three successive defeats – although two of those have been in exhibition matches.
The smartest exhibition here may be "Within These Walls... .. (2001): successive residents of a single house built in the 1760s in Ipswich, Mass., are used to trace the social and political history of two centuries.
Indeed, because of the Prado's infamous space limitations, the exhibition is embedded in the museum's main collection, a collection that rests heavily on the treasures accumulated by successive Hapsburg and Bourbon monarchs.
