Constable in Hampstead

A new thing in an old place: Burgh House Sometimes we've been to a place more than once and we think we've seen it so why go back. But some places try to keep things fresh by adding new things in an attempt to get visitors to come back, indeed to keep coming back, by creating a new thing in an old place. Exhibitions are a good way to do this, an updatable area where new stuff can be curated, ideally several times a year, all of which keeps the shop and the cafe and the donations box ticking over. So it is at Burgh House, an old house in Hampstead which nevertheless always has a programme of new things, indeed more new things than it ever used to have because they've very much slimmed down the 'museum' aspect. It's now much more about local history through local art, and you can't get much more local than beloved landscape painter John Constable who lived in Hampstead for six years and now has a new exhibition here, which is the new thing in an old place I mentioned earlier. What's…