Tuesday 08 September 2026
The V&A’s groundbreaking Britain 1500–1900 galleries turn 25 years old in 2026. A half-day conference is devoted to reassessing their aspirations and impact, and reimagining their future. The...
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Saturday 22 August 2026
Applications are open for the V&A’s inaugural fellowship in memory of DAS member Dr Clive Wainwright (1942–1999), scholar, antiquary and museum curator, and expert on 19th-century design. The...
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Wednesday 05 August 2026
The special four-day summer opening is to become an annual event at Two Temple Place, a neo-Tudor office with Gothic and whimsical elements that was built for William Waldorf Astor in the 1890s....
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Friday 10 July 2026
Halsey Ricardo’s main claim to fame as an architect is the sumptuous house he built in Kensington for Ernest Debenham, sheathed in peacock-blue and green tiles. He worked in partnership with...
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Monday 01 June 2026
Horace Elliott during his life was a potter in England, Scotland, Wales and Germany but until the private publication of this book had been forgotten by almost all collectors of...
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Monday 27 April 2026
This luxurious hardback book, bound in maroon fabric with gold tooling, opens with an extended biographical essay on leading American jewellery artist William Harper and his work by curator Glenn...
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Monday 23 March 2026
19th-century Manchester was a bleak and troubled city, plagued by social inequalities, pollution and rampant industrialisation. Spurred into action by Ruskin’s excoriating lecture in 1857, a few...
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Wednesday 11 February 2026
This publication is a collection of wide-ranging essays rather than a catalogue of the recent exhibition at the William Morris Gallery. The museum’s director, Hadrian Garrard, argues in his...
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Tuesday 13 January 2026
In the 20th century it was difficult to research artists who were not well recognised in the major publications of their own day or were often cited under their husbands’ names. Fortunately, new...
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Monday 15 December 2025
Some (perhaps many) may be surprised to hear that Charles J. Connick (1875–1945) was, in Peter Cormack’s audacious and learned opinion, America’s greatest stained-glass artist. They will have...
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