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Ashmolean Museum

November 2024

  • Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion

    Ashmolean Museum raises £4.48m to keep rare Fra Angelico work in UK

  • La consagración II 91.06 by Belkis Ayón. (detail)

    Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations; Bettina von Zwehl: The Flood review – singularly strange

October 2024

  • A rare, 2nd century AD bronze of the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, with a Curator Ralph Jackson of Roman and British collections at the British Museum, London before it travels to both ends of Hadrian's Wall this spring as part of an exhibition of Hadrianic objects.<br>GAG3PK A rare, 2nd century AD bronze of the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, with a Curator Ralph Jackson of Roman and British collections at the British Museum, London before it travels to both ends of Hadrian's Wall this spring as part of an exhibition of Hadrianic objects.

    Ralph Jackson obituary

    Archaeologist, curator at the British Museum and leading expert in the field of Greco-Roman medicine

August 2024

  • ‘Coins, no matter how functional, start as works of art’: gold aureus, left, of Nero (54-68). Right: Edward VIII bust by Humphrey Paget for gold pattern for £5, £2 and sovereign, awaiting final approval, 1936, shortly before the king’s abdication.Right: Humphrey Paget (1893-1974) Bust of Edward VIII for gold pattern for £5, £2 and sovereign, 1937

    Money Talks: Art, Society and Power review – a vivid, revelatory look at two sides of the same coin

    From beaky Roman emperors to banknotes from Joseph Beuys and Banksy, money and art are inextricably linked in this fascinating show

June 2024

  • John Boardman at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, in 2011.

    Sir John Boardman obituary

  • Solid bronze 57cm figure of the saint Tirumankai Alvar seen from the front and sides

    Oxford University to return 500-year-old sculpture of Hindu saint to India

March 2024

  • Woodland Scene, c1635–40 by Peter Paul Rubens. detail

    Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings review – vital, intimate, exceptionally intense

    So fragile that they are rarely seen in public, 120 of Flemish art’s finest drawings show you the minds and hands of the artists at work – chief among them the surprisingly dark and mysterious Rubens
  • Joris Hoefnagel Allegory for Abraham Ortelius

    ‘Every single work is a masterpiece’: the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest Flemish drawings

    A new show brings together historic sketches from Bruegel to Rubens and more, capturing fleeting snapshots of everyday 16th- and 17th-century life
  • Joannes Fijt, Study of a Dog.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Intense photographic visions, a journey to Rome and a dealer-turned-painter – the week in art

    A wealth of northern Renaissance drawings; photographers Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman, and recognition for gallerist Betty Parsons – all in your weekly dispatch

December 2023

  • Shield your eyes … aniline fringed chromolithographed 19th-century New Year card.

    How a European colour revolution brought us the humble Christmas card

  • Monica Sjöö, Meeting the Ancestors at Avebury, 1993 (detail).

    Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother; Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design – review

September 2023

  • Ramón Casas (1866–1932), A Decadent young woman, After the dance, 1899.

    To dye for: why Victorian Britain was more colourful than we think

    A new exhibition shows how a textile transformation brought brightness to the masses, in an era where electric purples and absinthe greens reigned supreme

August 2023

  • New Egyptian Galleries at The Ashmolean. Ashmolean Gallery, Oxford. The Shrine of Taharqa 23-11-2011 Photograph by Martin Godwin.

    Don’t smear our museums – they are not all institutionally corrupt

    Letters: Harry Dickinson and Daniel Smernicki on a report that said thefts by staff are a common problem in museums

May 2023

  • Oxford’s vice-chancellor, Prof Irene Tracey

    Oxford University cuts ties with Sackler family over links with opioids

    University follows other institutions in removing titles of family who make OxyContin painkiller

February 2023

  • The Knossos Palace archaeological site in Crete.

    Half–bull, half-truth… How English archaeologist claimed credit for discovering home of the minotaur

    Oxford museum aims to ‘set the record straight’ about the discovery of Knossos Palace in Crete

August 2022

  • Untitled (detail) by Elvira Bach, 1980.

    Young & Wild? Art in 1980s Germany; Pre-Raphaelite: Drawings and Watercolours – review

    There’s prolific energy, and the odd woeful daub, in a small show of art from 1980s Berlin – all eclipsed by a single pencil sketch nearby...

July 2022

  • The objects are held in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Ashmolean Museum (pictured).

    Oxford University may return items looted from Nigeria by Britain in 1897

    University council supports claim for 97 artefacts, including bronzes, currently held in city’s museums

June 2022

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    Summer on a budget
    Thrifty summer: free films, folk and standup – 25 cost-free ways to enjoy arts in the UK

  • Large model of an Oxford Crown coin

    Penny savings: taking the measure of money at the Ashmolean museum

February 2022

  • Printemps. Pruniers en fleurs, dit : Potager, arbres en fleurs, printemps, Pontoise<br>Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) Spring: Plum Trees in Bloom, 1877 Oil on canvas, 65.5. × 81 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris

    Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – the ‘old man’ who was always pushing art forward

    Camille Pissarro may be less famous than Monet, Renoir or Degas but his genius lay in always making you think, not feel
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