Ampthill Park House has always been a home of outstanding collections and the tradition continues to the present. Inspired by their shared love of art, Sir Timothy and Jane, Lady Clifford have filled their home with paintings, sculpture, furniture and ceramics. The Cliffords met when studying at the Courtauld Institute in London, nearly 60 years
Born in a small town in the middle of the USA, Judy is a professional international artist, who moved to the UK from Italy after living and working in eight countries as well as travelling and exhibiting in many more. She has artwork in public and private art collections worldwide, including Dean Clough Halifax, and
Peter Rabbit has inspired the 2027 art trail in Worcester to raise funds for St Richard’s Hospice, following on from the momentum generated by three previous successful trails. Individually-decorated Peter Rabbit sculptures will line streets and open spaces for eight weeks in 2027, creating ‘Peter Rabbit in the warrens of Worcester’, a Wild in Art
Sure, your local park may look tempting now that spring is on the horizon, but when you consider the near certainty of an April shower ruining your fun, a weekend gallery crawl is actually a much safer bet – even before you factor in the world-beating contemporary art that’s available to see in the UK
The Brentwood Art Trail will return this year from May 30 to June 28, transforming high streets into pop-up galleries and creative hubs for a month-long celebration of visual art. The popular pop-up gallery at the Baytree Shopping Centre will also return. Organised by the Brentwood Connected Business Improvement District (BID), the event invites artists
The Independent was not involved in the creation of this sponsored content. When images are generated, categorised, and transformed through code, who is responsible for what the viewing public sees? Is authorship located in the artist’s intention, the system’s logic, the dataset’s bias, or the final material outcome? Across the UK and beyond, artists working
I believe that national museums should be free for all. Your report (Is the UK’s golden era of free museum entry coming to an end?, 21 February) quoted me from a Daily Telegraph article that selectively used parts of a much longer interview. I said in principle that people would be willing to pay; however,
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, a woodblock print created by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai in late 1831, will be on public display at York Art Gallery from Friday (February 27) until August 30. It will form a main focal point of the gallery’s new exhibition, Making Waves: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Print, which showcases more
I was pleased to see Art UK’s achievements mentioned in your article, but astonished that it only featured its new chair and not the remarkable man who made it all possible (‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries, 23 February). I refer to Fred Hohler, who established the Public
The state of art history is not good, at least not in the UK. According to a schools survey by the Association for Art History, only 80 schools offer an A-level in art history, down from 122 a decade ago. Last year the exam was taken by a grand total of 838 pupils. It seems