The Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland are about to see their collections bolstered. London art dealer Anthony D'Offay announced that he would be giving a collection of 725 works of modern art to the galleries at their original ticket price. Estimated at a value of £125 million, D'Offay is asking for the £28 million he originally paid for the pieces. His reason? He's doing it for the kids. The collection will be......

When photographer Diane Arbus visited London in 1970, she wrote in a letter, "Nobody seems miserable, drunk, crippled, mad, or desperate. I finally found a few vulgar things in the suburbs, but nothing sordid yet." We daresay that if she had just asked Londonist, we could have pointed her in some promising directions. (Okay we weren't around in 1970, but still.) In any case, the letter from London seems to confirm everyone's worst fears......