An upcoming exhibition at the University of Cambridge library, “Rising Tide,” celebrates women’s long fight for equal access to higher education. Shockingly, women weren’t allowed to graduate from Cambridge on similar terms until 1948, a time still within living memory. The exhibition…
Margaret Seaman, a 93-year-old knitting enthusiast, has revealed her latest and, she claims, final woollen creation at a craft exhibition: an 8ft (2.4m) x 5ft (1.5m) knitted representation of Buckingham Palace. The Caister-on-Sea resident and great-great-grandmother believes this masterpiece will be a…
A watercolour painting of a Welsh castle by one of the UK’s most celebrated artists is anticipated to fetch up to £50,000 at auction. Created in 1794 by JMW Turner at 19, the painting features Chepstow Castle perched above the River Wye.…
Cambridge city center is hosting an exhibition of artwork addressing the issue of violence against women, created by BA (Hons) Illustration students from Anglia Ruskin University. The pieces were commissioned with the Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s KNOW Violence Against Women project. The exhibition focuses…
A collection of significant historical paintings has been discovered in storage at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, verified by an art historian as original and important works. The five casta paintings, dating back to the early 1700s, have been authenticated by art…
Lady Emma Bennet, an 18th-century aristocrat and plant enthusiast, amassed a collection of botanical paintings that remain a gem in the Kew Gardens archives. Despite efforts to preserve her collection, little was known about the botanist and discreet scientist until a historian…
Featuring pieces by Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Dorothea Tanning, 25 works from a San Francisco Bay Area collection will be auctioned at Christie’s in London in the coming months. The unnamed couple who amassed the collection over two decades became inspired…
The acclaimed actor earns millions from his celebrity portraits featuring Bob Marley and Heath Ledger. Having long captured the public’s attention with his high-profile film roles, growing musical ventures, and a highly-publicized recent divorce, Johnny Depp is now making headlines for the…
The Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte’s work, believed to be a tribute to Vermeer, is among the key items for auction at Sotheby’s “Surrealism and its Legacy” sale in Paris on March 15th. Magritte’s La Leçon de Musique, from a Belgian private…
The use of art collections as collateral for loans is a rapidly growing sector as the worlds of finance and art converge. There are two main players in this market: specialist lenders and banks. Sotheby’s Financial Services is a leading specialist lender…