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 […]
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New ‘hangings’ at No 1
A private collector has generously loaned two large portraits to No. 1 Royal Crescent. They are of Peter and Amy Burrell, who married in 1723, by Allan Ramsay (1713–1784). With no known connection to Bath […]
History – in the round.
There have been many artists – over the years – who have been inspired by ‘The Circus’ here in Bath. John Wood the Elder’s Georgian urban masterpiece and the country’s first giant roundabout. However, it […]
Gallery programme for 2019 is published.
Here’s a complete list of exhibitions coming to Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery between now and the end of 2019. The Victoria Art Gallery’s programme for 2019 will include an exhibition dedicated to paper, a display […]
Talent for sale.
Students from Bath Spa University’s BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion and Interiors course have swapped seminars for a stall this December as their hand-made creations have gone on sale at this year’s Bath Christmas Market. […]
Wrapping up a great year with On Paper.
You could say Jon Bennington – Manager of Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery – has already ‘opened’ his best Christmas present. Speaking to Bath Newseum – at a private preview for a new Arts Council produced […]
B&NES on the racks
Come off it B&NES. This is deprivation by stealth. Every time the bike rack hoops are removed for the annual Remembrance Day Parade a couple less are returned to their rightful place outside the Guildhall. […]
Bath’s iron maiden is unveiled.
Residents of Bath’s newest residential quarter – the Crest Nicholson Riverside development – seem to have given a ‘thumbs up’ to their latest incomer. It’s the Maid of the Bridge – a 4 metre high […]
A right Royal High to Perry!
It’s not every day a school lets its caretaker lead an important anniversary celebration but, for The Royal High in Bath, modest and self-effacing Perry Harris was just the man to help the institution celebrate […]
Poussin masterpiece coming to Bath.
Nicolas Poussin’s The Triumph of Pan, a much-loved work from the National Gallery’s Collection, is coming to Bath next spring – as part of a UK tour that will also take in York and County […]
