The sale of an art collection belonging to a beloved art school model and muse has sparked a fight over its legal ownership.
June Furlong (3 June 1930 – 20 November 2020) was a long-time life model for the Liverpool School of Art and Design, Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Among the thousands of artists she posed for were Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, and Lucian Freud who lauded her as “an exotic creature with a deep penetrating mind”.
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Ten hand-drawn maps from the Elizabethan period have been saved for the nation after a Portsmouth museum raised £600,000 to buy them. Drawn using ink and watercolour, the sixteenth-century maps are thought to be the earliest surviving representations of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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The recent national lockdown in 2021 forced many businesses to close their doors again, including museums, galleries and sites of national heritage. But art lovers can now get their cultural fix from ‘Explore the Raphael Cartoons’, the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exciting new online project.
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According to the Art Fund, the spread of coronavirus will force smaller UK institutions to indefinitely close if more help is not provided. Throughout 2020 the pandemic caused prolonged closures and sporadic openings for museums across the world, leaving the cultural sector in a precarious position as we enter 2021.
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An Italian museum did not realise its ‘Salvator Mundi’ painting had been stolen, until police discovered it hidden in the bedroom of a nearby apartment. The Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in Naples had been shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic when the theft occurred.
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A rare polychrome Tintin illustration has sold for a whopping €3.2 million (£2.8 million) with fees, breaking records for the most expensive work of comic book art sold at auction. Hidden in a drawer for decades, the original artwork by Belgian cartoonist Hergé (1907–1983) was in fact a rejected cover for one of the most popular European cartoons – ‘The Adventures of Tintin’.
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Only a few days after finalising Brexit, the UK has announced it will not adhere to the EU’s strict regulations on importing cultural property. This comes after four years of negotiation over the approval of the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’, a 2,000-page document that outlines the legal cooperation between the EU and the UK.
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The heirs to the art-dealing Wildenstein empire are to return to court for a retrial of their notorious tax fraud case.
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San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is facing criticism after announcing the possible sale of a landmark mural on its grounds. Painted by the legendary artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957), the site-specific mural could be worth up to US$50 million (£36.8 million).
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Another mysterious monolith has materialised out of thin air, this time in the picturesque setting of rural England. Local walkers stumbled across the installation on the frost covered Laverstock Downs near Salisbury on New Year’s Day morning.
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