Friday 20 August 2021
Located among Hastings’s famous net huts, overlooking the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe, Hastings Contemporary presents an exhibition to coincide with the surge in popularity for...
Read moreMonday 02 August 2021
This exhibition, which was organized by the Holburne Museum, Bath, showcases Perry’s earliest forays into the art world with works made between 1982 and 1994 when he first explored the potential...
Read moreMonday 12 July 2021
Here is a richly illustrated and engaging look at Beatnik, hippy and nonconformist jewellery makers of America in the 1960s and 1970s. Each chapter introduces strategic makers who participated...
Read moreTuesday 22 June 2021
Featuring over 60 objects, the exhibition is the first to examine the enterprising New York City design team who pioneered a new take on Modern Gothic furniture and defined a significant...
Read moreMonday 07 June 2021
This magnificent, large volume celebrates an innovative French ceramic artist, famous for his glazed stoneware vessels, as well as for his more sculptural production. The publication records the...
Read moreThursday 27 May 2021
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo and the Century Guild feature in most books on the Arts & Crafts Movement, but until now there has been no in-depth history of the whole group. Its fame has rested...
Read moreMonday 10 May 2021
The DAS is delighted to announce two Collections Access Grants. Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery received a grant of £5000 as a contribution towards a new, alarmed display case for the major...
Read moreSunday 25 April 2021
Art Nouveau, or New Art, the extravagant architectural and design style adopted around 1900 by the European nouveaux riches, was always controversial. Although intended to define the modern age,...
Read moreSaturday 03 April 2021
Social and cultural historian Zoë Thomas’s book is based on her doctoral thesis, whose title – ‘The Women’s Guild of Arts: Gender, Space, and Professional Identity in London, 1870–1930’ – better...
Read moreWednesday 17 March 2021
This well-organised and meticulous account of AVEM (Arte Vetraria Muranese) is a great addition to Marc Heiremans’ earlier books on the factories of Fratelli Toso (2018), Vetraria Aureliano Toso...
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