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Art theft and the case of the stolen Turners
This text provides a description of the events surrounding the theft of two important paintings by J.W.M. Turner in 1992, and the subsequent pursuit, location and negotiation for their return.
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Stewards of the Nation's Art
Stewards of the Nation's Artexamines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments.
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Two hundred years of women benefactors at the National Gallery: an exercise in mapping uncharted territory
This article sheds fresh light on women who have been important benefactors to the National Gallery from its foundation in 1824 to the present (2020), largely in terms of donating paintings but also through financial aid to support the acquisition of paintings and frames, building work, staff posts, publications, exhibitions, and various public events. Through a mixture of case-studies and basic data analysis, the following set of core questions is addressed: (1) Who were the Gallery’s women donors? (2) Which paintings did they give and in what other ways have they been generous to the Gallery? (3) What patterns within their donating can be discerned? (4) What were their motivations for their gift giving? (5) Why have their donations been easy to lose sight of? (6) What is the Gallery doing now, ahead of its 200th anniversary in 2024, to draw attention to the significant contributions of its women donors past and present? It is hoped that the information compiled here will act as a useful reference point for others in the field when probing similar types of provenance records and will encourage readers to share information to help us fill persisting gaps in our data.
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David Hockney at the Tate
Painter, graphic artist, photographer, stage designer, writer – David Hockney is one of the most versatile and significant artists of our times. The British artist’s international breakthrough came in the mid 60s with his homoerotic shower scenes and paintings of sun-speckled Californian swimming pools. In later works as well, the artist proved himself a keen observer and passionate experimenter. Melvyn Bragg met with the artist at his major 1988 retrospective at the Tate Gallery. Here Hockney reveals the background and intentions behind his works and recounts anecdotes on the milestones of his career – a very special kind of exhibition tour.
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Exhibition on screen. Season 2, episode 1, Matisse : from Tate Modern
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs was hailed the most successful exhibition in Tate Modern's history. See this show again at your local cinema, featuring exclusive footage from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Audiences are invited to enjoy an intimate, behind-the-scenes documentary about this acclaimed exhibition with contributions from people who knew Matisse and experts such as curators, historians and Tate director Nicholas Serota and MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry. Plus there are breathtaking, specially commissioned performances by Royal Ballet principal dancer Zenaida Yanowsky and jazz musician Courtney Pine. Acclaimed British actor Simon Russell Beale brings insight and emotion to the words of Henri Matisse himself, while actor Rupert Young (Merlin) narrates.
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Marlow meets. Series 1, programme 1, Michael Palin
Tim meets Michael Palin at the Tate Britain. Writer, actor, television presenter, comedian, and legendary Monty Python, Michael talks openly about his life through his chosen artworks. These include Turner's Sunrise with a Boat between Headlands and Whistler's Nocturne: Blue and Silver.
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Present-tense reality: Joan Jonas at Tate Modern
Over a career now spanning more than five decades, New York-based Joan Jonas has developed an idiosyncratic artistic language that is constantly evolving. It builds on itself, it shifts and moves. No one medium, and no one element - be it storytelling, video, performance, sound and music, drawing or sculpture - surpasses any other. Instead, these many strands coexist and overlap, as was evidenced in the expansive survey devoted to her practice at London's Tate Modern, revealing how Jonas's open approach is also distinctive for being both flexible and precise.
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Floating with form: Matisse's cut-outs at the Tate
It is March 2014 and I am visiting Saint Petersburg for the first time. At the Hermitage Museum I expect to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of history, the fleshy presence of Titian, the cold undulating forms of Michelangelo, the echoing solitude of Rembrandt. Instead, I am floored by Matisse: The Red Room (1908); The Dance (1909-10); Painter's Family (1911); Arab Coffee House (1913). I rotate in buoyant rapture from my fixed point in a room full of his classic paintings, awed by the relationships of colours, the shapes that bounce against each other regardless of their iconic reference. I ponder on the non-mimetic form of his figures and objects and their relation to the edges of the canvas, on his use of pattern and what I know about his quest to have a painting break the boundaries of its frame.
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