Fine Art News
- Camilla’s mad about “modern British” art
The Duchess of Cornwall told our correspondent yesterday that her favourite art is “modern British”, that is 20th century. She was visiting Swindon, to mark the publication of the Public Catalogue Foundation’s latest volume, on Gloucestershire and…
- Homophobic attack in New Delhi gallery
A homophobic attack on a gay artist earlier this month at a gallery in New Delhi has prompted fears that extremist Hindu groups are waging a new campaign against radical art and artists in India. The assault took place during an exhibition of…
- Swiss museum settles Malevich claim
A settlement has found common ground between a Swiss museum and claimants to art, allowing some of the art to remain on public display. In an agreement announced on 20 January, the Kunstmuseum Basel transferred a work in gouache by Kazimir Malevich…
- Shedding light on an obscure pre-Raphaelite
The restoration of a series of panels by Francis Ashton Jackson (1868-1946) at an English chapel for retired clergy is likely to boost the reputation of this obscure painter associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement. While the paintings were…
- Progress on the Uffizi expansion, at last
After a delay of more than five years, progress is finally being made on the project to extend the Uffizi galleries, housed within the Vasarian building complex. Eight new rooms dedicated to French, Dutch, Flemish and Spanish artists from the 16th,…
- Hermitage director turns down seat in Russian parliament
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, has turned down a seat in the State Duma, or lower house of parliament, representing Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party.
Piotrovsky was listed at number two in a…
- Spanish savings bank’s art collection “transferred” to Alicante museum
A few days before the sale of the Spanish Mediterranean Savings Bank (widely known as CAM) to the Sabadell Bank in early December, the savings bank signed a leaseback agreement with the city of Alicante to transfer its art collection to the Alicante…
