Friday 20 September 2024
Defining Owen Jones (1809-1874): Architect and Designer for a Modern Age is a conference organised by the Ashmolean and V&A Museums, to be held in Oxford on 1-2 October 2024. Owen Jones...
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Tuesday 27 August 2024
The DAS Trustees have agreed to increase the maximum amount to be awarded for each Collection Access Grant (CAG) from £5000 to £7500. This increase will apply to the next CAG with applications...
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Monday 22 July 2024
The Church of St Mary’s, Bourne Street is, architecturally and artistically, one of the most distinguished late 19th century Anglo-Catholic mission churches in London. To mark the 150th...
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Monday 17 June 2024
Told in six parts, the story begins with the Museum, how it defined its mission and how to achieve it. The first important gift, from John Sheepshanks in 1857, was a collection of paintings...
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Wednesday 22 May 2024
Written by the curator of Scottish history collections at National Museums Scotland, this book is a highly original account full of new information from contemporary letters, newspapers, novels...
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Friday 19 April 2024
An exhibition at The William Morris Society in Hammersmith explores the visually rich art of wallpaper. A range of beautiful wallpapers on loan from Sanderson's Design Group’s archive portrays...
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Saturday 06 April 2024
A major exhibition of over 350 works is currently at San Domenico Museum in Forli, Italy. Italian masters from Cimabue to Veronese are presented in dialogue with the British Pre-Raphaelites who...
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Tuesday 12 March 2024
Serbian-born designer and painter Bernat Klein (1922–2014) emigrated to the UK in the late 1940s and studied at the University of Leeds before developing an international career from his base in...
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Monday 12 February 2024
A black and white photograph by Lord Snowdon of the artist’s gnarled hands covered in wet clay opens this volume. This sparse yet intimate portrait sets the tone for what we learn about Lucie...
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Monday 22 January 2024
This book accompanied a major 2023 exhibition of Arts & Crafts copperwork at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon. Organized by guest curator Marilyn Archer, it was probably the...
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