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The best British museums and art galleries to visit in the UK now Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see? 28 May 2021 • 9:06am Naum Gabos Constructed Head No.2 is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives  Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire As lockdown measures are lifted, we are now allowed to go inside other places other than our own homes and supermarkets, art galleries are back open, whether for a family outing or just a wande...

Adar Poonawalla in his private office in Pune, housed in a decommissioned Airbus A320 plane Photo: Serum Institute of India Adar Poonawalla, who heads the Serum Institute of India, owns a Van Gogh landscape. His company, which manufactures the AstraZeneca vaccine, has become the largest producer of Covid-19 jabs. The Poonawalla family, with Adar and his father Cyrus, is now the seventh wealthiest in India, worth $13.5bn. Even before Covid, the company was producing 1.5 bill...

Another school holiday is upon us, but where can we take the children when it feels like everything is sold out? We have some ideas for you

Another school holiday is upon us, but where can we take the children when it feels like everything is sold out? We have some ideas for you

The Khalil Museum, with its fabled Impressionists in a mansion by the Nile, has reopened after an 11-year renovation—without Vincent’s flower still-life

Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see?

A complete guide to British museums and galleries reopening Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see? 13 May 2021 • 6:12pm Naum Gabos Constructed Head No.2 is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives  Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire Art is back. During lockdown, of course, it never truly left. But the joys of a solo mooch around a gallery, or a family outing, were put on hold.  But now, from May 1 in some parts of the UK, and ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Caption: Compton Verneys homepage for the Cranach exhibition which opened in March 2020 view more  Credit: Credit: Compton Verney When Museums closed their doors in March 2020 for the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK a majority moved their activities online to keep their audiences interested. Researchers from WMG, University of Warwick have worked with OUMNH, to analyse the success of the exhibitions, and say the way Museums operate will change forever.Caption: Compton...

Van Gogh’s Olive Grove (July 1889), Olive Trees (June 1889) and Olive Trees (June 1889) Courtesy of Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (photo: Rik Klein Gotink); Museum of Modern Art, New York (license: SCALA/Art Resource); and Minneapolis Institute of Art (William Hood Dunwoody Fund, 51.7) The first exhibition to explore Vincent’s olive groves now has new dates. Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum was originally to have presented the show this summer, but it has been delayed be...

Christie’s is to auction Van Gogh’s Le Pont de Trinquetaille (The Trinquetaille Bridge) in New York on 13 May, with an estimate of $25m to $35m. This will be a rare opportunity to acquire one of the artist’s Arles pictures, his most sought-after period by collectors. Painted in June 1888, it depicts the road bridge to the suburb of Trinquetaille, across the river from Arles. Van Gogh set up his easel on the quayside, just a few minutes’ walk from the Yellow House, the home that he wo...