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Voicing the Garden
Voicing the Garden, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund through its All Our Stories grant stream, and by the Cambridge University Botanic Garden Association (CUBGA), seeks to collect, celebrate and...
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Voyage of Discovery Takes Cambridge to the Capital
Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration, held in the beautiful surroundings of Two Temple Place, marks the first time Cambridge’s unique, world-class collections have been drawn together under one...
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Ronald Balfour: Cambridge’s own ‘monuments man’
On 10 March, 1945, a single shell landed in Kleve, a town close to the Dutch border in northern Germany. Kleve was badly bombed by Allied Forces and much of its medieval centre had already been...
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Innocent landscape or coded message? Artists under suspicion in the First...
Last month the government announced an initiative to commemorate the First World War with a programme of cultural events called 14-18 NOW. Through Arts Council England, it will fund commissions by...
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Unfolding the untold stories of an object d’art
Research by Cambridge University art historian, Dr Meredith Hale, published in the June edition of the Burlington Magazine, reveals how this unique piece of interior design embodies the merging of...
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Whale tale: a Dutch seascape and its lost Leviathan
In 1873 the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, was given a number of Dutch landscape paintings by a benefactor called Richard Kerrich. Among these works of art was a beach scene painted by the artist...
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How people power saved Bloomsbury from destruction
‘A Case Against Destruction, A Case for Celebration’ looks at how the people of Bloomsbury drew, wrote and celebrated their way out of plans to demolish a seven-acre site that was home to more than 600...
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Art, science and social responsibility in 1960s Britain
Its ‘WHITE HEAT’ symposium will see key figures from the decade join speakers from the fields of art and cultural history, the history and philosophy of science, activism and popular culture to revisit...
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Fitzwilliam Museum bids to acquire weeping Virgin
Mesmerisingly beautiful and just under life size at 33.6cm tall, the Virgin of Sorrows’ gently furrowed brows, natural flesh tones, glass eyes and teardrops and eyelashes made from human hair, still...
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From college cooks to artists and craftsmen: the story of a Cambridge dynasty
Early in the 19th century a young man called Richard Hopkins Leach (1794-1851) walked from Cambridge to Cornwall – a journey of more than 300 miles – to look for work. He kept a diary of his...
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Investing from the heart
In 2008 Jon Hunt bought a car, kept it for the following three years as an investment and then sold it in 2011 at a profit. So far, so ordinary. However, Jon is founder of Foxton’s Estate Agency, one...
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Travellers under open skies: writers, artists and gypsies
In 1780 a group of gypsies was hung in Northampton and their supporters threatened to set the town alight. Nothing is known about the crime for which the gypsies died or, indeed, if there was one. A...
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Kettle's Yard new exhibition: Beauty and Revolution
Beauty and Revolution traces Finlay’s artistic development from the 1960s to the 1980s; from the poems that made him Britain’s most internationally acclaimed concrete poet, to the images and texts that...
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HMS Beagle sketchbooks added to Cambridge Digital Library
The intricate pencil drawings and watercolours in the sketchbooks were made by Conrad Martens, shipmate to Charles Darwin as they travelled around South America on the voyage of HMS Beagle.Now, for the...
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Previously un-exhibited art by 15 Royal Academicians goes on display at...
‘The Royal Academy at Wolfson’ is an extraordinary exhibition, curated by Anthony Green RA, which includes paintings, prints, drawings and small sculptures that have been lent to the College by the...
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Rightmove: a T-rex called Clare finds a perfect home
There was never any debate about her name: it had to be Clare. She is a metal sculpture of a T-rex, and she made a spectacular debut as the centrepiece for last summer’s Clare College May Ball which...
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Bejewelled backdrop to coronations did not cost a king’s ransom
Cambridge conservation scientist Spike Bucklow uncovered the knock-down cost of the 1260 AD ‘Westminter Retable’ while researching his latest book ‘Riddle of the Image’, which delves into the materials...
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Illuminating art’s history
Faced with the prospect of his rapidly approaching nuptials on 29 October 1442, and with no wedding gift purchased for his bride-to-be, Francis I of Brittany (1414–1450) did what many of us have done...
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Modern art’s missing chapter
After being awarded £100,000 by the Art Fund to build a collection of work from Australia, South Africa and Canada, the museum officially opened The Power of Paper yesterday. The exhibition focuses on...
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Gaudier-Brzeska show marks centenary of his death
Gaudier-Brzeska moved permanently to London in January 1911. He made a significant contribution to the development of modern sculpture as one of the key members of the Vorticist movement and by...
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