Sometimes an event is so opulent it falls out of step with the current political climate and this year's Frieze London is a perfect example of this type of anomaly. The 11:00 am influx was even more crowded and buzzy than past feeding frenzies prompting one PR giant...
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated, and, let’s face it, kitsch, Russian Imperial eggs. Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution opened on the 20 November 2021 at the V&A London. It is set to run until 8 May;...
The DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport) has placed a temporary export ban on a multiracial allegorical Painting depicting Two Ladies, English School valued at £272,800. The bar is to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the...
Peter Paul Rubens Painting Of Samson and Delilah In The National Gallery Collection Is A Fake A Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece 'Samson and Delilah' (ca. 1609/10), listed as one of the 30 most important paintings in London's National Gallery collection, is a copy or...
The Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has today announced representatives from the arts, cultural and sporting worlds who will join a new task force aimed at helping Arts renewal by getting the country’s recreation and leisure sector up and running again. We are...
Arts Council England has released a statement outlining support for the arts during the COVID 19 crisis. In a statement released today (Sunday 15 March) the organisation is spearheading a programme of support. "Our number one priority for the next three months is to...
An export bar on Joseph Wright of Derby’s ‘Two Boys with a Bladder’ has been placed on the recommendation of Arts Minister Helen Whately. The work, completed between 1768 and 1770, is valued at £3,500,000 is at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can be found....
Arts Council England has published the 2017/18 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu annual report which shows that in the last year, 42 cases – spanning a vast range of works of art and other cultural objects worth £27 million - were accepted for the nation...
The National Portrait Gallery, London has announced Coming Home, a simple but powerful idea that will see the NPG lend 50 of their most beloved portraits to places across the country closely associated with that of the sitters. David Hockney will go to Bradford,...