[ad_1] The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram Hunt, has said that overseas visitors to the UK should pay a tourist tax in a bid to bolster cash-strapped national museums. In a comment piece published in the Financial Times last Saturday (15 February), Hunt wrote: “Let’s finally get on with it and introduce
[ad_1] A record-breaking 458 artworks were submitted for this year’s Northumberland Open Exhibition at Woodhorn Museum. A total of 379 pieces by amateur and professional artists have been selected for the exhibition, which opens on February 22. The annual event celebrates painters, sculptors and glassmakers from across the North East. It comes at an exciting
[ad_1] A record-breaking 458 artworks were submitted for this year’s Northumberland Open Exhibition at Woodhorn Museum, showcasing the region’s diverse artistic talent. A total of 379 pieces by amateur and professional artists have been selected for the exhibition, which opens on February 22. The annual event celebrates painters, sculptors and glassmakers from across the North
[ad_1] Liberty Thompson, 23, earned a Fine Art degree from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee in June last year. Following her degree show, the former Clydeview Academy pupil was nominated by a tutor for the Emerging Art Prize – a competition run by online gallery New Blood
[ad_1] Screamboat, a horror film based on the Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie, has found a UK distributor. The film stars David Howard Thornton, who plays Art The Clown in the Terrifier trilogy. Deadline reported that the film’s UK and Ireland rights have been acquired by Signature Entertainment, the distributor that also handled the successful
[ad_1] Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience will be back at the waterfront Exhibition Centre Liverpool from July 15 to August 3. The multimedia experience, which premiered in the city in 2024, will run alongside a new show, Beyond Monet, which will also make its UK debut in Liverpool. (Image: Peter Freeth) Beyond Van Gogh
[ad_1] Buoyed on by the release of a new movie starring Adrien Body (appropriately called The Brutalist) efforts have been revived to try and get London’s landmark slab of concrete – the Southbank Centre – listed to prevent it from future alterations or even demolition. Elsewhere in the world, Chicago’s edgy 1960s City Hall has
[ad_1] I’m not ashamed to admit it – I do read prose books. However, being a writer and artist of graphic novels, I find myself obliged to choose one in order to champion the form in general – it’s Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Dealing with the harrowing wartime experiences of his father, Vladek, a Polish Jew
[ad_1] The show will run from February 26 to March 1, at the Helmsley Arts Centre. First performed in Paris in 1994, the play has won numerous awards, including the Molière Awards for Best Play, Production, and Author in 1994, and the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in 1996. The play poses the question
[ad_1] Longford Park Primary School in Banbury has unveiled the installation by artist Emma Cox. The art, which is suspended from the ceiling of the school hall, is titled ‘The Garden of Imagination’. The aerial sculpture was inspired by the “beauty and vibrancy of the natural world”, in particular flowers, leaves and hummingbirds, creating a