4:44pm
1) The British Museum has announced that two-thirds of the funds required for its proposed new wing have been raised. The UK government has pledged £22.5 million of the £220 million needed, and a private donor has pledged £37.5 million.
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2) The Chicago Children’s Museum is tussling with severe financial difficulties, just one year after it was granted permission to move to the city’s Grant Park. It is claimed that there is a 50-50 chance of the project being completed as the economy continues to struggle. The news is likely to be welcomed by local...
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12:50pm
‘Workshop Missoni: Daring to be Different’ opens today at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London (until 20 September). The show is curated by Luca Missoni – son of Rosita and Ottavio ‘Tai’ Missoni (above), the founders of the family-run Italian fashion label.
On the press tour Luca Missoni points to an example of vintage costume on display telling us, ‘We have a, er, big archive’. This is met with a polite ripple of laughter as clearly it is something of an understatement when describing the fruits of his parents’ 55-year marriage and business partnership.
As well...
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1:37pm
It has been announced this morning that the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair has been axed. The shock news comes just weeks after the fair celebrated its 75th anniversary at this year's event which ran from 11-17 June. The fair is the oldest and most revered of all the London fairs, receiving royal patronage from HRH Princess Alexandra.
The fair is owned by the Grosvenor House Hotel which hosts the event in its Great Room. According to Apollo sources, the motivation behind the decision to end the fair is due to the economics of staging the event. While the...
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5:06pm
Following initial reports of April's earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy, very little news of the region's progress has been reported overseas. Here we bring you the latest news from our contributor Andrew Hopkins, who teaches at the university in the devastated city of L'Aquila.
It was the Faculty of Arts that was hit hardest when the earthquake struck L’Aquila on 6 April. Following a long-standing policy in cultural politics here in Italy, the plethora of disused monumental buildings that each town abounds in were given over to the Universities to use. While Engineering, Medicine and Biotechnology had customised...
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4:37pm
BANKSY NEW SHOW.
A unique collaboration between Banksy and the Bristol Museum has recently been unveiled. The exhibition, which is Banksy’s first museum show, has already attracted thousands of visitors to his home city. The exhibition is themed according to Banksy’s take on classical art. Banksy, who has exhibited all over the world, is delighted to be holding his first government-funded exhibition, which he describes as, ‘his vision of the future, to which many people will say: “ You should have gone to Specsavers”.’
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Things are looking up for MOCA, with news that more, quite substantial,...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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