Ashmolean Fra Angelico Triptych Saved For The Nation
The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra Angelico…
7 November 2024
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Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage Saved For The Nation
The appeal to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage for the nation has successfully reached its £3.5-million target in just ten weeks, with a final total of £3,624,087.
1 April 2020
Bellotto Masterpiece Saved For The Nation Goes On Display At National Gallery
Bellotto masterpiece, ‘The Fortress of Königstein from the North’, which was due to be exported from Britain, has been saved for the nation and goes on display in Trafalgar Square today (Tuesday 22 August 2017).
22 August 2017
Important Hans Coper Modernist Bowl Saved For The Nation
An important ceramic bowl by the iconic German born British potter Hans Coper (1920 – 1981) has been saved for the… Read More
5 August 2016
JMW Turner Painting Saved For The Nation After Ashmolean Fundraising Campaign
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford recently announced the launch of a public campaign to raise the final £60,000 to secure for… Read More
7 July 2015
Heath Robinson Collection Saved For The Nation By Generous Grants
Over 410 works by the British illustrator William Heath Robinson have been saved for the nation by grants of £300,000. The collection,… Read More
23 March 2015
Wolsey Angels Saved for the Nation By Heritage Memorial Fund
The recovery of Wolsey’s angels is one of those miracles that historians pray for; something that seems irrevocably lost has… Read More
8 February 2015
Important John Constable Painting Saved For The Nation In Tax Lieu Scheme
An important painting by John Constable R. A, one of Britain’s greatest and best-known landscape painters has been accepted by… Read More
28 October 2014
Wedgwood Collection Could Be Saved For The Nation As Deadline Approaches
The Wedgwood Museum, which entered administration in 2010, after the collapse of the iconic firm, has launched a public appeal… Read More
3 September 2014
George Stubbs Kangaroo And Dingo Saved For The Nation
Two masterpieces by the 18th century painter George Stubbs, featuring a kangaroo and a dingo executed in 1778 will stay… Read More
6 November 2013
Edouard Manet Portrait of Mademoiselle Saved For The Nation
The Ashmolean Museum has succeeded in raising £7.83 million to acquire Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus and keep… Read More
9 August 2012
Roger Hiorns Turner Nominated Seizure Saved For The Nation
The Arts Council Collection has announced that Untitled (Seizure) by Turner Prize 2009 nominee Roger Hiorns has been saved from… Read More
11 July 2012
Europe’s Oldest Book Is Saved For The Nation
£9million fundraising campaign keeps St Cuthbert’s Gospel in UK The oldest known book in Europe, the 7th Century St Cuthbert’s… Read More
17 April 2012
Dali Mae West Lips Sofa Saved For Nation By V&A
Back in 2017, we wrote that John Glen the UK’s Arts Minister had placed a temporary export bar on an iconic Salvador Dalí and Edward James designed sofa known as ‘Mae West Lips’.
16 May 2018
Detroit Institute of Arts Saved From Deaccession By Generous Donations
The Detroit Institute of Arts’ highly regarded art collection, with paintings by Degas, Cézanne, Seurat, Van Gogh to Brueghel and… Read More
5 January 2015
Manet Tops Treasures Valued At £29m Saved For Nation
Four globally important national treasures have been saved for display in UK museums in 2011/12. The four works are highlighted… Read More
18 December 2012
UK Export Ban For 17th Century Multiracial Painting Of Two Ladies – PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri Voted Colour Of The Year 2022 – Important Hepworth Donation
UK Export Ban For 17th Century Multiracial Painting – PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri Voted Colour Of The Year 2022 – Hepworth Donation
13 December 2021
Titian: A Pity To Miss – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Titian show at the National Gallery in London has arrived at a particularly inauspicious moment. Major public galleries in Europe are shutting their doors because of the coronavirus. The National Gallery has now temporarily closed.
19 March 2020
Poppy Sculptures: First World War Centenary Installations Go National
The UK’s official arts programme for the First World War centenary, is inviting expressions of interest from locations across the country… Read More
29 January 2016
Ashmolean Museum Campaigns To Save Turner Painting For The Nation
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford has announced the launch of a public campaign to raise the final £60,000 to secure for… Read More
7 June 2015
Banksy Saves Cash Strapped Youth Club With $650k Mobile Donation
A youth club in Bristol has been saved by the sale of a Banksy artwork which sold today to a… Read More
27 August 2014
Banksy Spooks Mural Saved By Quick Thinking Pub Goers
Vandals have attacked the ‘Banksy’ artwork that appeared last week in Cheltenham in Gloucester. The mural which depicts three men… Read More
18 April 2014
Behold The Monkey Fresco Saved As 40,000 Tourists Visit Church
An elderly parishioner who stunned Spanish cultural officials with an amateur and unauthorised restoration of a prized local fresco of… Read More
13 August 2013
The Forgotten Heroes That Saved Europe From Nazi Cultural Devastation
The Monuments Men is a story about the forgotten heroes who saved Europe from cultural devastation during World War II…. Read More
11 August 2013
ASHMOLEAN SPEARHEADS CAMPAIGN TO SAVE MANET PAINTING FOR NATION
The Ashmolean Museum is organising a campaign to save Edouard Manet’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, 1868, for the nation. On… Read More
24 February 2012
Millions In Art Donations Boost UK Museums
Turner, Hepworth and Sickert saved for the Nation to enjoy National treasures worth millions were saved from export and purchased… Read More
17 December 2011
Temporary Export Bar Placed On £10m JMW Turner Watercolour
Rebecca Pow, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Tourism and Heritage in Boris Johnson’s government has made her first move since his election by putting into place a temporary export bar on The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne by JMW Turner. It is hoped that the work can be saved for the nation.
3 August 2019
Hull City Of Culture: Rembrandt To Turner Prize Highlights Announced
The reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery following a £4.5 million facelift, the Turner Prize, an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s Screaming Popes, Spencer Tunick’s nudes, works by… Read More
22 September 2016
Important John Constable To Be Auctioned But Will It Get An Export Licence
A major work by the English painter John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837) is to go under the hammer at Christie’s at… Read More
26 May 2016
£2.5 Million Funding Announced For Iconic Poppies Tour
14-18 NOW today announced the three venues that have been chosen to host the iconic poppy sculptures Wave and Weeping… Read More
1 December 2015
Poppy Field Sculpture Moves North With New Installations Announced
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland and St George’s Hall Liverpool have been announced as locations that will… Read More
30 July 2015
Gavin Turk Welcomes Duchess of Cambridge To Turner Contemporary Selfie Exhibition
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was welcomed to Turner Contemporary yesterday on a visit which saw her introduced… Read More
12 March 2015