The Akron Art Museum just keeps on winning praise and prizes. The museum won one of the Royal Institute of British Architects 2008 International Awards for its new John S. and James L. Knight Building, designed by the Viennese architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au.
The National Portrait Gallery is a free trip through the history of British art.
A beautiful new show at the Yale Center for British Art brings together a collection of over 50,000 drawings, watercolors and other works on paper assembled over 15 years.
Paraphernalia and collectibles saved by a longtime servant of the British Royal Family, Billy Tallon, are on the block in London. It is, says Richard Roth , "a grand assortment of art and antiques and objects hard to classify."
British Museum director Neil MacGregor has turned down a job as head of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The British Museum overtook the Tate Modern art gallery to become the country's most popular cultural attraction in 2007, reports said Wednesday.
While I'm sure you've noticed the abundance of privately owned art galleries that line Main Street in Park City, there also exists the more subtle
Comment is free: Tristram Hunt: The British Museum is now our top attraction. If only others would shrug off their deadening ways and follow its lead
However, at the same auction, where a small sculpture was bagged for Rs 4.15 crore (Rs 41.5 million), he also received his highest price ever for an Untitled work in alabaster with a double concave (playing once again on the form of duality that he constantly explores) for a record Rs 16.75 crore (Rs 167.5 million).
Take a piece of paper. On the left, mark rising increments of money, indicating profits. Along the bottom, mark decades starting, say, in the 1790s, when the British first used the word "seaside" for a coastal place of recreation, and continue into the 21st century. Make two lines. One would start near the top where the money denotes profits from fishing. The line would steadily decline as it ...
