From the north side of London, the ...

From the north side of London, the Tate recent is best reached by walking from the traffic circle before St Pauls Cathedral across the Thames on the fresh Millenium footbridge to the main doors of the museum. That seventeenth-century St Pauls and the twenty-first hundred Beckmann exhibit both contain paintings of "spiritual significance," that the two display religious-seeming tryptychs, makes the meander above the bridge ironically a bit of an arc across the human condition. In our war- and atrocity-ridden time, the journey assumes entirely one way, towards Beckmann.

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