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• Brutal honesty about Preston bus station | Letters

  24-01-2025 18:41
  
  Bus station blues | Sharp pencils | Peanut butter | Prince Harry | Meat-free chilliIn your print edition, Oliver Wainwright describes Preston bus station, opened in 1969, as “a gleaming monument to the days when bus travel was as thrilling as space flight” (Four of Britain’s brutalist gems, 18 January). Clearly he never had to wait for hours back then in that soulless, draughty hangar of misery, on a cold, dark, rainy Monday evening in November, for the Ribble bus that nev
  
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• Brasil! Brasil! review – no fun and no funk in this baffling morass of mediocrity

  24-01-2025 11:53
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Brazil produces incredible artists, too few of whom appear in this deluded show, which sadly fails to live up to its own hyperbolic guffWhat words would you use to describe the design of this exhibition of Brazilian modernist art? “Chic bombast” perhaps. The biggest room in the main galleries of Burlington House is painted bold yellow with the names of its two featured artists in huge black graphics and, for visitors to sit on, funky curving furniture. But there
  
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