Bendor again with news of another talk for my book tour. This time we're at Hardwick Hall, and - how about this! - in the amazing High Great Chamber, one of Bess of Hardwick's grandest rooms and most ...

CODART (the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art) have published a fascinating feature on the ongoing digitisation and research of the Firmian Collection of prints kept in the ...

The Prado in Madrid have announced a new digital library platform. The website contains 11,500 publications (including 5,600 magazines and 6,000 books) which are all freely accessible. As to be ...

The city of Winterthur in Switzerland have sent Anton Graff's Self-Portrait at the Age of 72 back to Poland after a provenance probe. The painting had been hanging in a museum in Wrocław in 1937 but ...

Exciting news from Italy that a new catalogue raisonné dedicated to Carlo Maratta has been published this month. The two-volume edition penned by Stella Rudolph and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò ...

Hi everyone, here's a trailer for The Invention of British Art, which is out next week (October 10th). It's available for pre-order now, through all the usual places (and ideally, your local bookshop!

James Cumberlidge, whose descendants worked for the family into the nineteenth century, was rediscovered after research into ...

The French auction house Pousse-Cornet will be offering a monumental still life by Alexandre-François Desportes in a few days' time. The painting, which cataloguing suggests hasn't been offered for ...

The Petit Palais in Paris will be opening a new exhibition next month dedicated to Sweden's foremost painter of animals, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939). According to the museum's website: Less known than ...

The National Trust will be releasing a new book on Women Artists & Designers in February 2025. Here's the blurb (according to Amazon): From the magnificent gardens created by Vita Sackville-West at ...

The Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid have announced a new exhibition on Marcel Proust and the Arts for 2025 (spotted via. @martevelazquez). The show will examine the artistic stimulus for Proust's work, ...

The National Sporting Library and Museum, Virginia, and the art historian Christopher Garibaldi have teamed up to create this video documentary on aspects relating to the art and life of Sir Alfred ...