New Royal Academy top dog

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, a boyish 65-year-old with a floppy haircut and a pair of those trademark bottletop electric blue spectacles that architects wear to tell the world what they do for a living, describes the ritual of being elected president of the Royal Academy as a life-changing experience.
With just a 20-minute break to celebrate, Grimshaw sat down to deal with his first official duties, trying to clear up the messy and drawn-out aftermath of the allegations made about the head of the Royal Academy's painting school and his use of an unauthorised bank account. Rather than allow a vote based on nothing more substantial than newspaper reports, he pushed through a move to have Brendan Neilland suspended, and set up an independent inquiry into the affair, leaving the painter's reputation under a cloud for a little longer.,,
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