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SOMETIME IN 1975, Pierre Buraglio began gathering discarded windows from demolition sites in Paris. Pickings were plentiful. The fourteenth arrondissement, where he had a studio, was undergoing extensive redevelopment, part of a broader wave of modernization exemplified by the recently built skyscraper Tour Montparnasse. The artist had opposed this trend, heatedly decrying the likely consequences for the quarter’s working-class inhabitants.1 He was nonetheless drawn to the cast-off fixtures, which he conveyed to a friend’s carpentry workshop. There he transformed them into wall-mounted art...

Blenheim Palace will call their Indian Room the Summer Terrace Room during a new exhibition on Sir Winston Churchill 'to avoid colonial connotations'. Bosses at the country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, will use the alternative name for the show on the UK's greatest prime minister. They said they 'didn't want to provoke controversy' and wanted to make it 'more accessible' following calls to reassess Britain's past. But the palace later issued a statement saying it was due to the Indian Room being in a part of the house known as the Summer Terraces. Bosses at the country house in Woodstock...