Authors, politicians and senior figures from HarperCollins, including global CEO Brian Murray and News UK COO David Dinsmore, will be given tours of HarperCollins UK’s new distribution centre and offices in Robroyston today (Thursday 6th March). Jeffrey Archer, Rob Biddulph, Adele Parks and Nigel Slater are among the authors visiting the site. To mark World
Parenting is a messy business. And it is that chaos that is the theme of Sorry About the Mess, a show of more than 20 artists and writers who are mothers, taking place in Meta’s former offices at 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London. “The idea of mess and motherhood within an inhospitable office environment just felt
There’s a lot of gold in the National Gallery’s major winter exhibition. Not golden light or painted approximations of its effects, but the actual stuff: hammered gold leaf filling the haloes of saints, highlighting the folds in their garments, flooding the backgrounds of painting after painting in sheets of shining gilded glow. Well, what did
The doors of a Truro landmark reopened on Saturday following a significant and exciting transformation. Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery (formerly Royal Cornwall Museum) received £2.3 million in funding from Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth Programme via the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund to rejuvenate three key areas in the museum and take the
Bryanston School’s Jack Dickson recently featured on the BBC programme Extraordinary Portraits, presented by comedian and art enthusiast Bill Bailey. He was tasked with creating a portrait of a life-saving railway worker, and id just so by capturing the essence of Rizwan Javed MBE. East Londoner Rizwan, who works for London Underground, has saved 29 people
TRIBUTES were last night paid to Scots artist Jack Vettriano after he died at 73. Critics loathed the creator of The Singing Butler but a pal said: “He was the people’s painter.” 11 Jack Vettriano at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow where more than 100 paintings spanning his entire career were on display in
An Oxford museum described as a “hidden gem” that is home to half a million years of human history has been named one of the best in the UK. The Ashmolean made it onto The i Paper’s list of 21 of the best galleries and museums that don’t cost anything to enter. Introducing the list,
A new podcast from the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is receiving a mixed response from across the culture sector. At the end of February the DCMS launched First Draft, a podcast hosted by a culture minister Chris Bryant, which will air fortnightly. Bryant says on X that “this is the
Modern Art Oxford is housed in the former City Brewery building, designed in 1878 by Harry Drinkwater. The project focused on improving visual appearance, lighting and acoustics, while enhancing navigation and circulation, to create a more welcoming and inclusive venue. A key space is the new ground-floor gallery which has been designed with flexible display
Member-led practical sessions also take place and cover various topics, including making brushes and tools for mark-making, and how to display and frame artworks. Meetings take place at St Margaret’s Parish Centre in Ingol. Read more: Skate Like a Lass exhibition in Preston to showcase northern skateboarding communities Preston Art Society’s upcoming meetings Wednesday 5