LONDON (Reuters) - The Tate Britain museum bought 19th century English painter John Constable's masterpiece "Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" for 23.1 million pounds, making it one of the most ...
On Tuesday evening, while part of the New York art world is uptown bidding at Sotheby’s, another part will be gathered at the Riverfront Pavilion Midtown on the West Side, spending their money on a ...
Guests dining at the Tate Britain’s luxurious Rex Whistler restaurant have been clinking china and enjoying amuse-bouches for years alongside a massive mural that depicts child slavery. But now, amid ...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Tate Modern art museum on Thursday unveiled one of the most significant gifts it has received in years – a masterpiece by an American abstract expressionist that hung for years ...
For the first time, Britain is planning to pay heirs of a Holocaust victim whose art was looted by the Nazis. The government announced Jan. 18 it will pay $185,000 to the son of a German Jewish banker ...
The only below-the-belt blow is the acknowledgement of the time when Turner, on seeing his seascape “Helvoetsluys” hung next to Constable’s “The Opening of Waterloo Bridge” at the Royal Academy in ...
J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were fueled by competition, but united by a common wonder at nature’s beauty. By Emily LaBarge Her biography spans some of the 20th century’s most artistically ...
LONDON -- Tate Britain is inviting art fans to a night at the museum -- though robots, not T. rexes, will be roaming this time. The London art museum says for five nights beginning Wednesday, people ...
LONDON — It’s 10am on the last Saturday of January, and Tate Britain is predictably sleepy. The museum has just opened its doors for the day, and a modest coterie of visitors treads lightly to ...
In the latest controversy involving Rex Whistler's 1927 mural “The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats,” installed at the former restaurant of the Tate Britain in London, the museum is seeking an ...
The drag queen who performed a storytelling event for children at Tate Britain that sparked a clash among protesters outside the museum said the readings teaching inclusivity were on “an important ...