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The Assembly Rooms were built 250 years ago this month. Emma Clegg celebrates the anniversary by looking back on their...
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Growing old wasn’t something that young people in the sixties and seventies thought much about – they were too busy...
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A unique show at the Holburne Museum – the first ever exhibition dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portraits – features some of Rossetti’s most iconic artworks. Assistant curator Sylvie Broussine explains the background Artist, poet and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) is one of the...
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Emma Clegg talks to local director Dione Orrom about a new documentary which explores the V&A’s Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser...
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Midge Naylor is a painter whose work sparkles with energetic imagination. Eschewing any physical visual references, her inspiration is drawn...
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Lawrences recent 750-lot sale of silver and vertu was a highly successful venture and there were many strong prices to show the strength and breadth of this field. The day’s top price was paid for a very distinctive and desirably scarce late Elizabeth I steeple cup and cover, generously awarded...
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Words by Duncan CampbellAntique silver specialist A top tip on insurance For as long as anyone can remember, antiques dealers...
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After more than 30 successful years at The Pavilion, Bath Decorative Antiques Fair celebrates a return with a new autumn date on...
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From Coldplay to Peter Gabriel, The Piano Shop Bath has been offering its services to some of the world’s most iconic musicians for almost 40 years. Millie Bruce-Watt catches up with owner Jon Kelly, whose creativity knows no bounds Pushing the boundaries in design and innovation, The Piano Shop Bath...
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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...