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From: Closed Mondays Category: Exhibitions Date: 08 April 2009 Time: 09:07 AM Review: I was attracted to this exhibition as I noted in the guardian guide that there would be paintings by Oscar Kokoschka. There was only one, I hadn’t read carefully. There were some reproductions of Egon Schiele's water colours, and some little pictures carefully made by Josef Karl Radler who spent most of his life in asylums. I enjoyed seeing the heads made by Franz-Xaver Messerschmidt again, and some other wax heads of some twin lunatics. The combination of this, the Wellcome collection of medical apparatus upstairs, The Bell Jar (which I am finally reading) and having not spoken to any one familiar for some thing like 24 hours combined to make me feel kind of mad and alienated. The exhibition isn’t all its cracked up to be, but it has a few pieces and the café looks like a good place to sit on a sunny day.