One of Bath’s former resident artists comes under the spotlight at the Holburne Museum in an exhibition that features Thomas Gainsborough’s personal and artistic links with the 18th century world of entertainment. Gainsborough and the […]
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Let’s see Santa get this down the chimney!
This has to be one of the most expensive ‘stocking-fillers’ available in Bath for this Christmas – and you’re going to have to knit a very big – and strong – stocking to put it […]
Members Exhibition
The Bath Society of Artists is holding its Members Exhibition in the city next month. Maxine Foster has sent me the following details: Bath Society of Artists’ Members Exhibition44AD, 4 Abbey St, Bath BA1 1NNwww.bsartists.co.uk […]
A brush with Ken Loach
A portrait of filmmaker Ken Loach by Richard Twose, an artist based near Bath, will go on show at the city’s Victoria Art Gallery from 2 October. On loan from the artist, the large (200 […]
Holburne returns to charging.
Bath’s Holburne Museum has decided to re-introduce admission charges to all its galleries to help balance the books. You’ll be paying from early next month but there are some concessions and free periods. The new […]
Maid in Bath.
Later next month a new piece of artwork is set to be installed at Crest Nicholson’s Bath Riverside development and Bath Newseum has been lucky enough to see the start of its construction and talk […]
You’ve been framed
When you acquire a family archive – full of artistic gems – and find the majority are unframed – it pays to have friends. On display now at Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery – through […]
We’ve got ourselves a Grayson Perry!
The Victoria Art Gallery has secured grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), Art Fund and Friends of the Victoria Art Gallery to buy the fascinating work Posh Art (1992) by popular Turner Prize-winning artist […]
Making Art Matter
The work of Bath-based artists Clifford and Rosemary Ellis, whose artistic partnership spanned more than five decades, will be celebrated in a new exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. Making Art Matter: Clifford […]
A bridge with history.
Four years ago contractors began dismantling the old Destructor Bridge across the River Avon. It would be making way for a new – coathanger-styled – connecting bridge to allow traffic in and out of the […]
