3.3m views! The huge reaction to this video (and when the story first broke months ago that the National Gallery was getting rid of these) I think shows how deeply we mourn the erosion of beauty and character and colour. Also, the disappointment we feel in prized national institutions when it feels they are losing their way. But above all it surely points to the deep anger at how so much of this is caused by the most petty, unthinking, unnecessary health and safety fanaticism, driven by faceless bureaucrats who we will never be able to challenge directly and are answerable to nobody