Saumarez Smith News Today

In reconfigured permanent collection hangs, major museums are moving away from outdated art history.

Call it Gummer’s Law, the country house clause, the now-no-more Planning Policy Guidance 7 (PPG7), or even its latest, official title: paragraph 80 of the

The simple fact of the matter is this – the sport has to take radical steps if it is to retain its pre-eminent place in British culture

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] David Lowenthal’s Archipelagic and Transatlantic Landscapes: His Public and Scholarly Heritage, edited by Kenneth R. Olwig, was published by Routledge in July 2023. Read the Introduction at tandfonline.com. Launch: The book will be launched on September 7, 2023, with presentations by editor Kenneth Olwig,…

After it fired a worker for theft and its director stepped down, the museum faces renewed calls to give back contested objects and an uphill battle to raise funds for refurbishment.

Kambi has partnered with Eyas Gaming and Brazilian-facing football media website Lance to launch a new online sportsbook in the country.

A U.S. museum volunteered to repatriate a scared monolith to Nigeria, in return it received an exact facsimile.

The Chrysler Museum of Art has given back a looted monolith to Nigeria and received a facsimile in exchange, writes Barnaby Phillips. Will other institutions follow suit?

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has notified stakeholders that Chair Joe Saumarez Smith has been diagnosed with lung cancer and will start treatment

When Romilly Saumarez Smith lost her fine motor skills, she despaired. But then she remembered that even Michelangelo worked with collaborators.