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The sculptor’s chandelier, now export-stopped by the UK government, once hung in the offices of Cyril Connolly’s

Jason and the Argonauts (1963): ‘a sense of the marvellous’ When lockdown restrictions were relaxed last month, an exhibition devoted to the work of special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen reopened at Edinburgh’s Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It might seem strange that an art museum should host a show dedicated to a man who spent much of his career making models for monster movies, said Martin Hannan in The National – but its subject “was no ordinary modelmaker”. Harryhausen (1920-2013) can truly be said to have “changed cinema” forever. Working decades before compu...