Sunday 06 March 2022
The DAS has provided a grant of £3000 to support the V&A’s acquisition of an export-stopped ivory and bronze sculpture, The Death of Cleopatra. French sculptor Henri de Triqueti (1803–74) was one...
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Thursday 17 February 2022
The island of San Giorgio with its church designed by Andrea Palladio has been a ‘must’ for art lovers for centuries, but particularly in the last 10 years or so with two fascinating art venues....
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Wednesday 09 February 2022
Proposed budget cuts in Stoke-on-Trent threaten the wellbeing of the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and the Gladstone Pottery Museum. Planned job losses and museum closures will have a huge...
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Monday 24 January 2022
Sonya and David Newell-Smith ran the Tadema Gallery together for 41 years, from 1978 until David’s death in 2019. This handsome publication, co-authored by Sonya and the jewellery curator and...
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Wednesday 05 January 2022
Young Poland: An Arts and Crafts Movement (1890 – 1918) is the first major exhibition to explore the decorative arts and architecture of Young Poland, an extraordinary cultural movement that...
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Thursday 09 December 2021
This attractive small book, printed on creamy paper, is part of the V&A’s ‘Artists in Focus’ gift range (other titles in the DAS period of interest are William Morris’s Flowers and Voysey’s...
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Monday 22 November 2021
Helen Wilson’s meticulous study of Violet Pinwill and her sisters’ woodcarving business in Plymouth made me want to dash down to the West Country to see the many church schemes featured in this...
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Saturday 23 October 2021
Ceramic (defiantly singular) is an ambitious and important book that Paul Greenhalgh, a former Deputy Keeper of Ceramics at the V&A, has been planning for decades. It is both a celebration of and...
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Wednesday 06 October 2021
Daniel Cottier (1838–1891) was an artist, designer, decorator and art dealer whose business empire spanned three continents. Cottier and his decorating firms brought art to the public and were...
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Friday 17 September 2021
Humans have made functional objects since prehistoric times: furnishings to sit or lay upon, vessels to store or drink water, devices to illuminate the darkness or mark the passage of time....
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