Decided to re-visit a story – in today’s look back – about one of Bath’s most talented of artistic characters. This was first published in November 2018. It’s not every day a school lets its […]
Category: The Gallery
Star line up for Children’s Festival
Some of the biggest names in children’s books, along with a host of well-known faces from TV, are coming to Bath Children’s Literature Festival this autumn. The 13th annual celebration of the written word – […]
Tower on view
A retrospective of one of Britain’s most important 20th-century ceramic artists, James Tower, will go on show at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath this autumn. James Tower Ceramic Artist: A Centenary Celebration will run from […]
Too good Toulouse.
Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery in Bath is seeking public support for a crowdfunding campaign for its next blockbuster exhibition. Starting on 23 July via Art Happens – UK charity Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform – the […]
Bath Festivals asks for council help.
Give us a one-off financial life-line to enable us to keep going and we’ll widen our appeal. That seems to be the deal Bath Festivals wants Bath & North East Somerset Council to agree to […]
Those wartime years remembered.
Sixty outstanding artworks from the 1940s – including some wartime images of Bath – will be showcased in a new Summer exhibition next month at the Victoria Art Gallery. War and Rumours of War: 1940s […]
Subtle – it isn’t!
If you haven’t visited Bath’s Holburne Museum for some time – the new coat of paint in the entrance corridor isn’t the only thing you’ll notice that has changed. Director, Dr Chris Stephens has put […]
A sneak look at Bath’s big art show!
It’s the biggest event of the year for members of the Bath Society of Artists whose members and their family and friends packed into the Victoria Art Gallery tonight on Friday for this year’s annual […]
Top honours for Herschel Museum.
It might not be the biggest museum in the country but Bath’s Herschel Museum of Astronomy can still punch above its weight when it comes to seeing off the competition and winning a prize. It’s […]
A Bath ‘treasure’ still to be fully revealed.
Why is it – when l step down the basement stairs at the Assembly Rooms – l always get a sense of what Aladdin or Howard Carter must have felt when – in their darkness […]
