An export bar has been placed on Claude Lorrain’s Landscape with Rural Dance, giving UK institutions a chance to secure the painting for the nation. Painted in Rome around 1640, the large seventeenth-century canvas shows shepherds pausing from their labour to make...
UK Culture Minister, Ed Vaizey, has placed a temporary export ban on a 17th century painting by Claude Lorrain, which will provide a last chance to keep the work of art in the UK. The painting is considered to be one of the finest examples of the artist’s...
Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Poussin and Velazquez are among a collection of over 40 works from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg which will travel to Britain for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at one of this country’s finest historic houses, Houghton in...
To celebrate the 250th anniversaries of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner's births, Tate Britain presents these two titans of the British landscape in their first major exhibition. And major it is: the range of watercolours, paintings and sketches is extensive,...
Happy 88th Birthday David Hockney! Few artists have traversed the terrain of contemporary art with the same vitality, irreverence, and formal restlessness as David Hockney. Born in Bradford in 1937, he has spent over six decades dismantling and reimagining the...
Few living artists command the cultural reverence of David Hockney, whose seven-decade career has redefined the boundaries of painting, drawing, and digital art. The Fondation Louis Vuitton dedicates its entire Frank Gehry-designed space to the British maestro in the...
The collection from the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace, widely acknowledged to be the highlight of the Royal art collection is brought together in a gallery exhibition for the first time. Sixty-five paintings that usually hang in the Queen's private gallery in...
In 1964, as a young artist David Hockney left his Yorkshire home for Los Angeles, desirous of Hollywood glamour and the lifestyle that the West Coast depth of field and darkness of shadow had to offer. Hockney’s swimming pool paintings are among the most popular...
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture - REVIEWSo here it is. The first major blockbuster exhibition of 2012, and the event kicking-off the London Cultural Olympiad – David Hockney: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy of Arts. Bringing together over 150 works, the...