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With the support of the Deutsche Börse Group, the Photographers’ Gallery in London has been saved. This is an astute move for new backers, the German stock exchange, which has its own, highly-prized collection. As a result of this excellent…

A new EU Report holds to task the British fine art market, estimated to be worth some £4.2 million per year. From 2006, the droit de suite directive will put a tax of up to 4% on all resales of…

Still on the subject of landscape, it transpires that the process of mapping and monitoring changes in agricultural cropping patterns, sponsored as a result of the reform of the EU common agricultural policy, is using satellite technology to check on…

Edvard Munch has been incarcerated in a smart restaurant overlooking the Oslofjord in Norway, close to where the artist grew up. The themed hotel plays a dangerous game, it seems, its appearance more akin to a kind of wayside art…

US landscape designer, Charles Jencks, is currently working on a woman with breast and hips up to 100 feet high, to be established some ten miles north of Newcastle. This new sculpture will be a kind of soulmate to the…

The Seattle-based jazz composer and instrumentalist, Bill Frisell, has released a new album entitled Richter 858, inspired by a group of eight abstract paintings by German artist, Gerhard Richter. He has accompanied each of the paintings with its own composition…

Robert Crumb, the American master cartoonist, has been successfully exhibited in Britain, where some critics have compared his work to that of Cruickshank or Hogarth. Certainly there is a Rabelaisian impact to the cartoons. Crumb now lives mainly in France,…

On 25 March 2005, an intriguing summer exhibition opened at Compton Verney House in Warwickshire, entitled ‘Salvator Rosa: Wild Landscapes’. As Sir Joshua Reynolds (first President of the Royal Academy) claimed, Rosa’s perspectives offered ‘the power of inspiring sentiments of…