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Rediscovering a long-lost Victorian artist who made east London his home
Romford Recorder· 2 days agoIt opens at Valence House Museum, little more than a mile from where he spent the last 30 years of his life living and painting. His most famous works include John Dee performing an experiment ...
This Glasgow building dates back 121 years and reopens tomorrow
Glasgow Times via Yahoo News UK· 3 days agoHis other works include the Charing Cross mansions, Selfridges department store in London and the ...
Metal detectorist unearths eight silver coins in Derbyshire field
BBC News· 4 days agoA metal detectorist who unearthed a rare item made of Bronze Age gold has now discovered a hoard of...
Aphrodite signified more than beauty – five other realms in which the Greek goddess also reigned
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 5 days agoPerhaps when she took Ares, god of war, as her lover, Aphrodite was attracted by his metal armour....
UK export bar placed on Louis XIV’s £7.5m table top
The Art Newspaper· 5 days agoThe UK government has placed an export bar on a table top once owned by Louis XIV of France in the hope of finding a British museum to buy the piece,...
Victory without damage: ‘Just Stop Oil’s climate activism is one of the most successful disobedience...
The Art Newspaper· 5 days agoOn 30 June 2022, two young Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to the frame of Van Gogh’s Peach...
‘Sexual passion frightens me’: the tragic, romantic life of Stefan Zweig
Daily Telegraph· 5 days agoEva remembers Zweig’s flat close to the British Museum as “rather dark and slightly gloomy”. “Lotte...
Why are Belfast rappers Kneecap challenging UK government?
EuroNews· 6 days agoWest Belfast rappers Kneecap have been granted permission by Northern Ireland’s High Court to...
Plaid Cymru makes election call for the return of Welsh artefacts held in England
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoBoth were discovered at a time when there were no public museums in Wales, which is why they were...
Keira Knightley and pregnant Jenna Coleman celebrate Erdem at Chatsworth exhibition
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoChatsworth is a long way from Whitechapel, where Erdem Moralıoğlu has his studio and where for...