The Secret History Of British Art Collections
In a new three-part series for BBC Four, art historian Helen Rosslyn traces the stories of the men and women whose enthusiasm for art, sense of adventure, and powerful wealth built Britain’s national...
View ArticleStephen Fry’s Key to the City
In this one-off documentary for ITV, actor Stephen Fry explores The City of London, using his status as freeman to gain access to all areas. The City of London is more rich and powerful than any other...
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National Gallery – Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900
Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl (1918) This autumn, the National Gallery in London presents the UK’s first major exhibition devoted to the portrait in Vienna – Facing the Modern: The...
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National Gallery – Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance
Hans Holbein the Younger, ‘Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (‘The Ambassadors’)’, 1533 What exactly makes a work of art beautiful? And how can this perception radically alter due to the changing...
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Perfect Your Craft: Five of the Most Unusual Artistic Mediums
If you are an artist, crafting aficionado, or maker, you want to engineer something truly unusual and amazing. For many artists, this means creating the same art that they feel drawn to, and...
View ArticleThe Royal Academy of Arts – Summer Exhibition 2014
Everything you’ll see at the Summer Exhibition represents what is happening in the art world right now. New and recent art created by everyone from emerging artists to the biggest names in contemporary...
View ArticleBritish Museum – Ancient Lives, New Discoveries
The groundbreaking interactive exhibition Ancient Lives, new discoveries will showcase recent research on one of the most-popular areas of the collection – ancient Egyptian and Sudanese mummified...
View ArticleRMG – Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
To mark the 300th anniversary of the passing of the Longitude Act in July 1714, this landmark exhibition Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude tells the extraordinary story of the race to...
View ArticleNational Gallery: Making Colour
This summer, the National Gallery in London presents Making Colour,the UK’s first exhibition of its kind invites visitors on an artistic and scientific voyage of discovery. 18 June – 7 September 2014...
View ArticleSand Sculpture Festival – Disneyland Paris Sand Magic 2014
Summer is here and so is the return of the yearly Sand Sculpture Festival held in the Belgian coast town Ostend. This year’s theme is Disneyland Paris Sand Magic, where visitors will be enchanted by...
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