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How could I put together another show, 20 years on, that would not repeat the previous one? ![]() That was a groundbreaking project and my first significant experience as a curator. Back in 1996, I had been involved in the first major Alma-Tadema retrospective since the artist’s own day, at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. ![]() When Frank van der Velden of the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, first phoned me to suggest a new exhibition on the19th-century Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, I hesitated. ![]() ![]() It is such a page turner, even when it gets a bit redundant at times. 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