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  • Claude Quiche, Claude Lorrain and the World of the Gods

    Musee d’Art Ancien et Contemporain, Epinal, France through 20 August 2001

  • Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (£25,000)

    Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (25,000)

  • David Sylvester

    The death of the author, historian and critic David Sylvester on l9 June, aged 76, has now robbed the world of a leading expert on Francis Bacon — his parents had been Russian-Jewish silver experts and dealers — whilst Rene…

  • Rogers’ Vicissitudes

    It was announced in early July that the Welsh Assembly did not wish to proceed with Lord Rogers’ design for the new Assembly. Meanwhile, the Greater London Authority’s ‘City Hall’ building by Rogers’ contemporary and former partner, Lord (Norman) Foster,…

  • Riven Tate

    Industrial action at Tate Modern? It seems a contradiction in terms. How can the great emporium dedicated to displaying the promise of a better world be riven with strikes? The Institution of Professionals, Managers, and Specialists no less, is representing…

  • Quangos Vanish

    The Arts Council of England will appoint regional officers to replace the ten regional arts boards. Chairman Gerry Robinson’s efforts to replace the regional boards have met with sheer opposition from the supposedly ‘autonomous’ quangoids. Local authorities are to have…

  • Niklaus Pevsner Celebrated

    The English sensibility over architecture today has been shaped more by Sir Niklaus Pevsner than anyone it seems. He wrote, or jointly authored, some 42 volumes of The Buildings of England, county by county, before dying in l983. This magnificent…

  • National Gallery windfall

    Mark Getty, with his uncle Gordon Getty, has given 10 million to the National Gallery, London. Mark is the creator of Getty Images, one of the world’s major digital archives. He is one of two sons of Sir Paul Getty’s…

  • National Gallery completes Masaccio ‘jigsaw’

    Neil McGregor, Director, has achieved a remarkable re-composition: Masaccio’s ‘Virgin and Child’ of 1426 (this year is the 600th anniversary of the artist’s birth) which comprises a central panel (‘Virgin and Child’) owned by the Gallery, along with the ‘Adoration…

  • Retrieving Durer

    This week historic drawings valued at over DM 30 million have been returned to the Bremen Kunstwerein, their original home. Albrecht Durer’s ‘The Women’s Bathhouse’ — a masterly depiction of nude females enjoying their ablutions — has long been missed.…