The results are in and two London institutions have carved out coveted spots on TripAdvisor’s annual list of the world’s favourite museums. Continue reading
Category: Art News
Boodle Hatfield supports exciting new print fair
We are proud to announce that our esteemed clients, Jack Bullen and Lizzie Glendinning, will present their second edition of the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair from 20 – 23 October 2017, taking place at Building 10, Major Draper Street, Royal Arsenal Riverside, Woolwich, London SE18 6GD. From central London, the river clipper makes the venue easy to access by boat.
Olympic medal thieves jailed over museum heist
A jury in Dumfries has found two men guilty of stealing an Olympic gold medal from Dumfries Museum.
Stewart Pettigrew and Charlie Walker will be imprisoned for nearly four years for breaking into the Museum in 2014 and snatching sports medals, a casket containing a historical scroll and a chain of office. Continue reading
Art dealer jailed for stealing from clients for 30 years
An art dealer stole at least £435,015 from his clients to fund a gambling habit, a court in Gloucester has heard.
Jonathan Poole of Poulton, Gloucestershire fleeced money out of nine victims over a period of 30 years by selling their artworks at a fraction of their value and pocketing the difference. He admitted to 26 offences of fraud and theft of artworks by Auguste Rodin, John Lennon, Rolling Stones’ guitarist Ronnie Wood, painter Sebastian Krüger and even jazz musician Miles Davis. Continue reading
Monkey selfie case settles out of court
A US lawsuit has given a whole new meaning to the expression ‘monkey business’ after crested macaque settled his dispute with British wildlife photographer David Slater out of court. Continue reading
Where are the poppies now?
It was the artistic installation that took the nation’s breath away.
888,246 ceramic poppies, one for each British or colonial serviceman killed in the First World War transformed the Tower of London into a dramatic, commemorative field in 2014. Five million visitors including the Queen came to marvel at ’Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’, the creation of ceramic artist Paul Cummins and designer Tom Piper. Continue reading
Council’s publicity campaign angers heritage lovers
A local English council has caused a furore once again over plans to promote itself internationally as a cultural heritage destination three years after it controversially sold a 4,500-year-old Egyptian statue. Continue reading
Constable ‘copy’ is actually a £2 million original
A landscape painting, which previously sold for £35,000 has been authenticated as an original from the brush of English Romantic painter John Constable and valued at around £2 million.
Gloucestershire businessman, Henry Reid, purchased the rendition of Willy Lott’s Cottage on the River Stour from art dealer and BBC Fake or Fortune? presenter Philip Mould in 2000. At the time, Mould was just beginning his career as a dealer. Continue reading
Artist ‘disgusted’ by appearance of her watercolour in ‘Broadchurch’ episode
An artist whose painting was featured in an episode of ‘Broadchurch’ is demanding £10,000 in compensation from the show’s producers.
Angela Hewitt from the Isle of Wight feels her “work has been abused” by Kudos, the makers of the ITV crime drama. Kudos did not seek Hewitt’s permission to feature her £125 watercolour of a cockerel as part of the set in a scene from the third series. The artwork appears onscreen for five seconds hanging on the wall in the home of rape suspect, Ed Burnett, played by Sir Lenny Henry. Although Burnett was eventually found not guilty, Hewitt believes the appearance of her work could damage her reputation as it has become “associated with a show about rape”. Continue reading
Stolen painting decorated couple’s bedroom for decades
A stolen painting by Willem de Kooning made headlines on 11 August when it re-emerged after 30 years. Now it has been revealed that ‘Woman-Ochre’ was hanging in the bedroom of a couple’s home in New Mexico since it was burgled from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson in 1985. Continue reading
