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Some achieve distinction in one or possibly two branches of the world of art, but few, if any, are outstanding in all of them. Alan Bowness – art historian, curator and museum director, critic and journalist, and a collector himself – was just such a man, for all his personal modesty and quiet public profile. What drove him was his love for, and thirst for knowledge of, 19th- and 20th-century art – painting and sculpture especially. This allowed him to become one of the most effective pro...

Alan Bowness was an art historian whose eye and influence shaped the British contemporary art world over more than 40 years. He never sought the limelight, but his quiet self-assurance and belief in his own convictions inspired confidence in others and made him the most persuasive and effective voice in a talented post-war generation of curators, writers and critics. In the late 1950s and through the 60s and 70s, he was a pioneering academic and a friend to a generation of abstract artists ...

Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 12.58 EST A large and vibrantly colourful painting full of people unthinkingly gathering and mingling has captured top prize in one of the UK’s most prestigious art awards. The painter, Kathryn Maple, was on Thursday named the winner of the biennial Liverpool-based John Moores painting prize, following in the footsteps of artists such as Patrick Heron (1959), David Hockney (1967), Peter Doig (1993), and Rose Wylie (2014). Judges said the work, entitled The Comm...

/ Sir Alan Bowness CBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) British art historian, art critic, director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988 has died age 93. Bowness was active as an art critic in the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Observer, Arts (New York), Art News and Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Burlington Magazine. He became a Regional Art Officer for the Arts Council in 1956, with responsibilities for the South West of England. In April that year...

Liverpool prints by Helena Markson I am pleased to announce that the Walker Art Gallery has acquired a significant group of Helena Markson’s Liverpool prints. Markson is known for her vivid landscapes which combine intaglio printing techniques such as etching and aquatint. These prints are an important acquisition for the Walker. They show a period of great change in the city, while also representing an exciting era of printmaking in post-war Britain. The prints also help increase the gallery...

2. St Michael’s Mount Just a quarter of a mile offshore at Marazion, near Penzance, is the arresting sight of the old monastery, St Michael’s Mount, rising dramatically out of the waters of Mount’s Bay. It’s connected to the mainland by a cobbled causeway for low-tide visitors and the National-Trust-managed rocky island harbours a shop, cafe and hamlet of cottages. There’s an option to visit the gardens and castle at the summit, filled with a rich collection of historic artifacts and ...

A child looking at Barbara Hepworths sculpture Family of Man in Wakefield Credit: The Hepworth Wakefield “I don’t know if you remember me,” an art student wrote to Helen Kapp, director of Wakefield Art Gallery, in 1960. “You once purchased a pot cat off me.” Kapp was the doyenne of the Yorkshire art scene at the time, known for acquiring young artists’ work for the Wakefield collection.  This student enclosed a catalogue for his solo exhibition at Skipton Castle. Kapp sent her e...