For a change, exciting & positive news for UK Humanities: 'In a corner of the Warburg Institute’s new exhibition space is a haunting tribute to lost libraries and exiled authors. Designed by Edmund de Waal, the small pavilion lies scattered with books by displaced writers'. 1/4

‘Places need renewal or they disappear’: Warburg Institute reborn

A £14.5 million revamp of the unusual Bloomsbury library has also prompted a rethink about its mission, says director Bill Sherman

'The British artist, who has described it as “the most significant sculpture of my life”, knew exactly where it should go. “He gave it to us because, he said, the Warburg is the library of exile,’” reflected Bill Sherman, the institute’s director.' 2/4