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Postgraduate students at Bath Spa University have collaborated with BRLSI to create a pioneering app, introducing new audiences to little...
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The most important set of paintings of Venice by Canaletto is coming to the Holburne this year. Emma Clegg spoke...
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Monserrat Pis Marcos is a curator at the Holburne Museum. She started at the museum just a few days before the first lockdown in April and then kept art lovers entertained with her series of Inside Art features on the Bath Magazine website throughout the spring and summer. Here she...
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Having your creative work selected by the national body for the crafts, The Crafts Council, is a real achievement. Five...
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From 2 November Bath Society of Artists’ Annual Exhibition goes online for the first time in its 115- year history,...
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Just as the world locked down, some of its most highly acclaimed cultural spaces opened up online, allowing us to travel to see the art wonders of the world from our living rooms. Millie Bruce-Watt explores the virtues of virtual art tours. Although lockdown physically confined us to the four...
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A year on from its installation, head gardener at The American Museum & Gardens Andrew Cannell tells us about the...
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This inkstand is not about the ink but the maiolica, a type of tin-glazed earthenware known for its ‘storied’ wares...
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This summer, the work of local artist David Ringsell will be displayed at two of Bath’s brilliant exhibitions, celebrating the city’s talent. David’s artwork will be on display at Abbey Hotel’s ArtBar when it re-opens on 27 July and at The Art Cohort. Abbey Hotel Bath recently launched its ‘RUH...
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Just last autumn Richard Twose’s work adorned the walls of the Victoria Art Gallery and Beaux Arts. From designing bespoke...
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Here is a scene of majestic landscape grandeur with fisherman and boats going about their daily business, seemingly oblivious to...
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Art curator and historian Monserrat Pis Marcos from The Holburne Museum considers a 17th-century decorated cabinet with a difference, one created with Japanned and silvered wood that was designed to imitate Chinese porcelain. Following the development of trade routes to the East during the 17th century, lacquer became a coveted luxury item...