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Appearing Rooms Fountain back at the South Bank

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To help you cool off in this unlikely heat, Danish artist Jeppe Hein’s Appearing Rooms Fountain is back at the South Bank. Children and adults took to it with glee on Saturday, 23 April, the hottest day of the year … Continue reading

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More of London’s Public Art

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Following on from my previous post on London’s public art, here are a few more examples of the eclectic array of art on display on London’s streets. It isn’t all soldiers on horseback, you know!

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A tour of the Wallace Collection

The Wallace Collection is a magnet. One of the most impressive art collections in the country, amassed by four generations of the Seymour-Conway family (the occasionally scandalous Marquesses of Hertford) it draws me back again and again – I clearly … Continue reading

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London’s Public Art

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London is home to a wide range of public art, from statues of the great and the good (or at least the powerful), to representations of the puzzling and quirky. Here are a few pictures, in what will probably be … Continue reading

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Free art exhibitions at grand auction houses

Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction houses are the two dominant players in the auction business. Great rivals, they both host auctions which frequently make the headlines, as works of art are sold for enormous sums of money. This February the sculpture … Continue reading

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