The British Museum has announced that architect Lina Ghotmeh will lead the renovation of the Western Range galleries, a huge area of 15,650 square metres that amounts to one third of the museum’s overall gallery space. Initial designs for the space will now be developed, with the aim of being ready by mid-2026.
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The British Museum will be receiving a gift valued at around £1 billion, the highest value gift any UK museum has ever received. The Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation have announced that they will be donating around 1,700 Chinese ceramics to the London museum, who will now have the largest and most significant public collection of Chinese ceramics outside of the Chinese speaking country.
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Archaeologists in Peru have recently uncovered the first known painted throne room of a powerful Moche woman at Pañamarca. The so-called “Hall of the Moche Imaginary” was built by the prosperous civilisation in the 7th century CE.
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When the Venetian artist Titian (c.1488/90-1576) was only 20 years old, he painted the exquisite “Rest On The Flight Into Egypt”. Centuries later, after being stolen and then sensationally recovered at a bus-stop in 2002, the “little masterpiece” has set a new world auction record for the artist.
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Described as a “counter-memorial” to the horrors of slavery, a new monumental fountain has been installed in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
Kara Walker’s ‘Fons Americanus’ ignites fresh debate about the history of British colonialism with its provocative exploration of race, sexuality and violence.
A police raid on properties in County Durham and Lancashire has uncovered a Viking hoard, which has the potential to rewrite British history.
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