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BY EUROPEANA
16.02.2015
Retronaut to feature unique Europeana photos on Mashable
This year you can explore the historical photo collections made available via Europeana on Retronaut! From interesting photographs to the downright bizarre, we highlight them all. Retronaut...
Museums
16.02.2015
Daily art story: The most expensive artwork ever sold
Remember Paul Cezanne's "The Card Players" ? The painting was purchased for about $250 million by the country of Qatar in 2011, holding the record for the highest sum ever paid for a work of art....
BY Culture24
16.02.2015
Campaign launched to turn Ian Curtis's home into museum devoted to Joy Division star
Ian Curtis Museum could be created if plot to buy family home of Joy Division singer succeeds The Ian Curtis Museum could be created at the singer's former home in Macclesfield © joydiv.org In...
BY EUROPEANA
13.02.2015
Historic lost footage of Chicago Disaster found by chance on Europeana
A phD candidate from the University of Illinois in Chicago has uncovered previously unseen footage of the Eastland Disaster in Chicago on Europeana’s 1914-1918 website . The disaster, which killed...
BY EUROPEANA
13.02.2015
Celebrating World Radio Day 2015
The birth of radio was a groundbreaking invention for both physics and communications, changing the way the world sent and received information forever. Today, the idea of a simple AM/FM radio...
Museums
12.02.2015
Daily art story: Van Gogh and the artists of the Petit Boulevard
Do you know "Boulevard de Clichy", a painting by Vincent van Gogh? It shows the Paris boulevard from a junction that Van Gogh often crossed. Rue Lepic, where he lived with his brother Theo,...
BY EUROPEANA
12.02.2015
Wishing you a happy Darwin Day!
Today marks the 206th birthday of scientist Charles Darwin, an important figure in Europeana’s collections. He was only 22 years old when he set off for the Pacific aboard HMS Beagle in 1831,...
BY Culture24
12.02.2015
England's oldest surviving cannonball resurfaces near site of Battle of Northampton
Tree-damaged ball could represent first time artillery was used on English soil, may star at new visitor centre Is this England's oldest cannonball? © Northampton Battlefields Society The lead ball...
Museums
11.02.2015
Daily art story: Jean-Honoré Fragonard - the synonym of the French Rococo
"If necessary, I would even paint with my bottom." -- Jean-Honoré Fragonard Leading the same charmed life depicted in his paintings of the aristocracy in pre-Revolutionary France,...
BY Culture24
11.02.2015
Dan Dare, Red Rum, the Blitz and neolithic sands: The Atkinson opens new display in Southport
Record-breaking speedboat drivers and Hornby trains to star in new museum display Kevin Harlow's version of the Mekon - Dan Dare's nemesis © The Atkinson A sculptor who made Holyhead’s Millennium...
BY Culture24
12.02.2015
John Singer Sargent: An artistic life well lived at the National Portrait Gallery
John Singer Sargent's talents and tastes are celebrated in a dazzling new show at the National Portrait Gallery John Singer Sargent, Carolus-Duran (1879) © Copyright: Sterling and Francine Clark Art...
BY Culture24
12.02.2015
Art, animals, gin and dancing: The museums and galleries to go to this Valentine's weekend
Seeking inspiration for Valentine's weekend and beyond? Click on the links to find out more about each event © Charles Dickens Museum The Gin Library , Charles Dickens Museum , London, Thursday Set...
Museums
10.02.2015
Daily art story: Eugène Boudin - the French landscape master
"To steep oneself in the sky. To capture the tenderness of the clouds. To let the cloud masses float in the background, far off in the gray mist, and then make the blue blaze forth." --...
BY Culture24
10.02.2015
V&A channels Wolf Hall spirit to buy £5 million Wolsey Angels linked with Henry VIII's tomb
Bronzes created for tomb of Cardinal in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall novel bought by V&A after "tenacious" project Benedetto da Rovezzano was commissioned to complete Henry VIII's tomb following...
BY Culture24
10.02.2015
Wrest Park reveals a First World War love story that lasted a lifetime
A love story that began in a country house hospital during the First World War is revealed at Wrest Park Daniel and Evelyn Maclean When Private Daniel MacKinnon MacLean of the 1st Battalion Royal...
BY EUROPEANA
09.02.2015
Love is in the air on Europeana
With Valentine’s Day approaching, we’ve decided to get into the spirit of things and look at some of the love stories on Europeana. Love in art, as in life, takes all kinds of shapes and sizes,...
BY Culture24
09.02.2015
Boulton Paul Defiant fighter arrives safely at the Kent Battle of Britain Museum Trust
The Boulton Paul Defiant fighter finally arrives at the Kent Battle of Britain Kent Battle of Britain Museum Chairman Dave Brocklehurst MBE in the cockpit of the Defiant as it arrives at its new...
BY Culture24
09.02.2015
FOUND: New Art Gallery Walsall explores the art of found photography
Found photographs and how artists use them is the subject of a new group exhibition at New Art Gallery Walsall Julie Cockburn, The Telepath (2014). Hand embroidery on found photograph © Julie...
Museums
06.02.2015
Daily art story: the world’s largest collection of oil paintings by Klimt
"Art is a line around your thoughts." -- Gustav Klimt A co-founder of the Secession and initiator of both the Kunstschau of 1908 and the Internationale Kunstschau of the subsequent year, Gustav...
BY Culture24
06.02.2015
