Richard Dorment has new appreciation for Charles Saatchi’s place in the artworld. “Since the fire, I’ve become much more aware of what the Saatchi Gallery means for the visual arts in this country. It has many faults – the difficult exhibition spaces at County Hall, the vagaries of Charles Saatchi’s taste, a PR machine in overdrive – but there is nowhere else in the world where so much new art is made instantly accessible to the public on a regular basis. I suppose you never know what you have until you see how easily it could disappear.”