07/01/2005. LONDON, ENGLAND.- It is almost twenty years since the last major exhibition of Stubbs's work and this is the first to focus exclusively on the object of his true passion, the horse. The starting point for this exhibition is Whistlejacket, pain...

04/03/2007. LONDON.- 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the passing of the Act of Parliament that legally ended British involvement in the trading of African people to serve as slave labour in the Americas, the West Indies and Europe. To commemorate this...

04/02/2011. BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announced today that Dr. Oliver Tostmann would be named the William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection at the Gardner. The Curato...

06/21/2011. LONDON.- A new portrait of Sir Martin Evans by prize-winning artist David Cobley has gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Sir Martin was the first scientist to identify embryonic...

05/13/2013. The major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery this summer celebrates the work of one of the greatest of all American landscape painters. Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and...

05/27/2015. This week will see the release of a new publication 100 Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland, a detailed and lavishly-illustrated overview of one of the finest collections...

07/09/2015. This summer, the National Gallery offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience some of the highlights of the collection in a very different way, through what they hear as much as w...

07/27/2017. A striking newly-commissioned photograph of actor Jack O’Connell has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, it was announced today, Wednesday 26 July 2017, coinciding with his West...

02/03/2018. A portrait slashed with a butcher’s cleaver by a suffragette in the National Portrait Gallery is back on display there for the first time in over twenty years. A photograph showing the damage h...

02/22/2018. Eighty works by Spanish masters are arranged in a chronological overview, from the 1600s to the present-day. The still life paintings of great and universally acknowledged artists, such as Cotán, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró and Dalí are shown alon...

08/24/2019. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s famous portrait of William Wilberforce will be exhibited in Hull as part of a major project, Coming Home, launched by the National Portrait Gallery. The Coming Home project sees the National Portrait Gallery lend 50 port...

09/03/2019. Reynolda House Museum of American Art presenting the work of Joseph Christian (J.C.) Leyendecker, one of the most prolific and sought-after artists of the Golden Age of American Illustration...

05/15/2021. Following the positive response to Artemisia Visits (2019), the National Gallery announced Jan van Huysum Visits which will see Van Huysum’s magnificent Flowers in a T...

02/24/2022. Two artists, two generations, two perspectives: Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends opened on Saturday, creating a dialogue on the roles of women in contemporary and colonial Australia. Watson, a Waanyi woman, based ...

10/13/2023. The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia announced today the appointment of Rebecca Ray as Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions. Ray will commence her new rol...