LONDON.- The BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) announced the launch of Your Paintings, a project to create a complete catalogue of every oil painting in the national collection, on a dedicated website. In all, the national c…
BBC Uploads 63,000 Paintings Online as It Launches Your Paintings; Aims for 200,000 Works
LONDON.- The BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) announced the launch of Your Paintings, a project to create a complete catalogue of every oil painting in the national collection, on a dedicated website. In all, the national c…
British Museum Scoops £100,000 Art Fund Prize for “A History of the World” Project
LONDON (REUTERS).- London’s British Museum won the 100,000 pound ($160,000) Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year Wednesday for its project “A History of the World.” The project was an exploration of world history using the museum’s collection, at the…
Four Museums Short Listed for £100,000 Art Fund Prize
LONDON.- This evening, on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and BBC TWO The Culture Show, news of the four museums and galleries that have been short listed for the Art Fund Prize 2011 will be announced. The single, £100,000 prize for the ‘Museum of t…
Star Names Announced for The Tate Movie Project
LONDON.- David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Catherine Tate and Rik Mayall will lead the stellar cast of The Tate Movie Project’s film, The Itch of the Golden Nit, voicing the characters devised by children. The Tate Movie Project is the first of its kind …
Ten Museums in Running for £100,000 “Museum of the Year” Art Fund Prize 2011
LONDON.- The long list of ten museums that are in the running for the UK’s largest arts prize – the Art Fund Prize 2011 – will be revealed on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The long list of museums competing for the ‘Museum of the Ye…
Ten Museums in Running for £100,000 “Museum of the Year” Art Fund Prize 2011
LONDON.- The long list of ten museums that are in the running for the UK’s largest arts prize – the Art Fund Prize 2011 – will be revealed on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The long list of museums competing for the ‘Museum of the Ye…
Journey to Jupiter! World Museum Telescopes Trained on Solar System
LIVERPOOL.- Demonstrators from World Museum’s Planetarium will host a special viewing evening as they gaze on the largest planet in the solar system. On Thursday (13 January) from 4.30-6.30pm visitors can use telescopes and binoculars on the fifth…
Specially Equipped Silver Aston Martin First Driven by Sean Connery Sells for $4.1M in London
LONDON (AP).- One of the world’s most famous James Bond cars — the specially equipped silver Aston Martin first driven by Sean Connery in “Goldfinger” — was auctioned off Wednesday in London for 2.6 million pounds ($4.1 million.) The unique …
Tate Archive Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary with Display and Over Forty Pledged Gifts to the Collection
LONDON.- Tate Archive will celebrate its 40th anniversary this week with a fascinating new display, 40 Degrees of Separation, featuring forty items from the Tate Archive Collection, all of them interconnected in sequence. From Kenneth Clark’s not…