Space Invaders and The Face Magazine also elevated to top design greatsThe Design Museum in London has added 13 classics to its collection. They include a Sony Walkman, a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle and an example of the motorway signage system, whose standardised...
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Cornelia Parker To Present The Contemporary Art Society Annual Award
The Contemporary Art Society ‘Annual Award’ takes place on 14th November The Annual Award, "Commission to collect " sponsored by The Contemporary Art Society has announced that this years prize will be presented by atiist Cornelia Parker. The reception for...
Looted Nazi Art Records Published Online
International Archive Established in World's First Nazi Plunder Catalogue The National Archives and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe has signed a global agreement on 4 May in Washington DC with leading national archives and museums, to provide an international...
Government Art Collection On View At Whitechapel
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Prime Minister’s wife Samantha Cameron, Lord Mandelson and the British Ambassador to Moscow are among the high profile figures to select work for the first ever public exhibition of the Government Art Collection, opening at the...
Eight UK Museums Lose Government Funding
The DCMS, as part of its four-year business plan, has announced that it will no longer fund eight Museums that it currently sponsors. It will scrap national funding of “museums that should be the responsibility of local communities”. This affects eight non-national...
Yinka Shonibare Save The Arts New Work
Latest 'Save The Arts' Work YINKA SHONIBARE CREATES A WORK FOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST CUTS A striking new work by Fourth Plinth artist Yinka Shonibare was unveiled today as part of the campaign supported by over 100 leading British artists against the government’s...
Fabergé Winter Egg: New £23m Record For Tsar’s Gift To His Mother
London loves a spectacle, especially when it comes packaged in rock crystal and 4,500 diamonds. On Tuesday evening, Christie's delivered exactly that — the kind of auction theatre that makes the room hum — when the storied Winter Egg, one of the last Fabergé imperial...
Into Abstraction Meaning Connection And Hope Firstsite – Revd Jonathan Evens
Sally Shaw MBE, Director of Firstsite, says: “Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape offers a powerful way to view 20th-century British history through art, showing how artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Elizabeth Frink, and L.S. Lowry used imagination...
Anya Gallaccio Named Recipient Of Robson Orr TenTen Award 2025
The Government Art Collection has announced that Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio has been named the recipient of the 2025 Robson Orr TenTen Award. The announcement was made by Baroness Twycross, Minister for Museums and Cultural Property, who also presented Gallaccio’s...