CONSTABLE MASTERPIECE BOUGHT BY TATE FOR £23.1M
John Constable’s 1831 masterpiece Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows has been bought by the Tate for £23.1m.
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LOST PAINTINGS BY BRITAIN’S FIRST FEMALE ARTIST ON SHOW AT TATE BRITAIN AFTER BEING FOUND IN PARISIAN ANTIQUES SHOP
Two lost paintings by Britain’s first professional female artist have been discovered in a Paris antiques shop and are to go on display at Tate Britain’s revolutionary new exhibition.
THOUSANDS OF TICKETS SOLD FOR MONET EXHIBITION
The Winter Masterpiece series, Monet’s Garden, opens in Melbourne on Friday and features more than 60 works devoted to the artist’s iconic garden, Giverny.
MAMMA MIA!: ABBA THE MUSEUM OPENS IN STOCKHOLM
A museum devoted to the pop superstars opening in Stockholm on Tuesday will celebrate the band’s long list of hits. But it will also show off paraphernalia, including the helicopter […]
WITH CUBAN HELP, KENNEDY LIBRARY GETS HEMINGWAY TROVE
He may be the only icon that the United States and Cuba, longtime nemeses, both claim as their own. When he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, many […]
FIRST MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE DEVOTED TO ENID BLYTON OPENS IN NEWCASTLE
A new exhibition devoted to the life and work of writer Enid Blyton will open this weekend at Seven Stories in Newcastle.
VAN GOGH MUSEUM REOPENS WITH DISPLAY ON HIS CRAFT
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reopened after a seven-month renovation, kicking off with “Van Gogh At Work,” an exhibition that shows the famously tortured artist’s working methods right […]
PAINTER MARK ROTHKO’S LATVIAN HOMETOWN OPENS CENTRE FOR HIS ART
Modernist painter Mark Rothko’s hometown in Latvia devoted a new centre to the late artist’s work on Wednesday.
SMITHSONIAN NAVIGATES HISTORY FROM GALILEO TO GPS
On Friday, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is opening its first major exhibit focused on navigation. It includes instruments that aviator Charles Lindbergh used to learn celestial navigation […]
PARIS EXHIBIT ASKS: WAS THERE AN ITALIAN MONET?
The show at Paris’ Orangery museum displays works from 1860s Florence with vivid, dappled light — in a strikingly similar way to famed painters like Claude Monet from the 1870s. […]
