Piccadilly Art Takeover is launching a season of free, accessible public art. Five artists chosen by the Royal Academy have transformed Piccadilly with 30 overhanging flags, 13 vibrantly painted pedestrian crossings and filmed pieces for a 780 square meter screen.
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Over the last month, three paintings by the French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) have been in the news, none of which had been seen since the end of the eighteenth century.
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Proposals to cut funding for art and design courses by 50% across higher education institutions in England have been approved by the government. Students across thirteen subject areas will be impacted by the cuts including art, design, music, drama, dance, media studies and journalism.
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Boodle Hatfield is delighted to sponsor one of the lions in the London pride as part of the Tusk Lion Trail with the trail prowling past some of the West End’s most iconic cultural landmarks. Our life-sized lion sculpture is being created by London based critically-acclaimed artist, Helen Downie and will be hitting the capital later in August.
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Liverpool has lost its status as a Unesco world heritage site. According to Unesco, years of construction and redevelopment projects on the historic docklands have caused “irreversible loss of attributes conveying the outstanding universal value”.
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Rosie Adcock and Alexander Martinelli from our Luxury Assets team spoke to founder of THE RE-PETE PROJECT, Katie Walsh to discuss the increased scrutiny of brands who claim to be sustainable and environmental practices in the fashion industry.
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A newly unsealed complaint reveals that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a 49-year-old Mexican man called Angel Pereda for attempting to fraudulently sell artworks he claimed to be by two renowned twentieth-century artists, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Defaced following the Euro 2020 final, the mural of footballer Marcus Rashford is now being restored in Manchester. Street artist Akse, who originally created the mural last year, has described the vandalism as “unacceptable” in the wake of the racial abuse received by some players.
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Archaeologists working on the HS2 route in Hillingdon, west London, have uncovered three hundred Iron Age coins. Described as a “once-in-a-lifetime find”, the coins were found after a storm disturbed the ground where they had been buried many centuries ago.
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Last Thursday evening (8 July) the Art Law & More team was thrilled to welcome some of our close clients and contacts at the Ultimate Street Art Experience!
