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Since April 2022, Britain has banned the export of luxury goods worth more than £250 to Russia, art included

Since April 2022, Britain has banned the export of luxury goods worth more than £250 to Russia, art included. Breaking the ban is a criminal offence and may cost up to six months in prison. And so, last November, the Crown Prosecution Service brought a charge against the Hauser &

Architecture · Art · London · Monarchies

Model of the Memorial to Elizabeth II in St James's Park

A model of the memorial to Elizabeth II in St James's Park. The three-metre bronze figure will be based on a portrait of the Queen in her youth. In the background one can see a small sculpture of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. The memorial complex

Coming Up · London · Museums · Society · Ethnography

The British Museum Opens a Most Interesting Exhibition on the USA

The British Museum has opened a most interesting exhibition on the USA. It is not, however, a parade of panegyrics for the 250th anniversary of the United States, but a reminder that many indigenous peoples were not at all delighted by American independence. Although the exhibition, Declaring Independence: USA 250,

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On 1 July Sotheby's in London will offer an amber heart-shaped pendant with a carved portrait of Elizabeth I

The appraisers expect £100,000 to £150,000. Yet last November an anonymous collector bought this pendant at auction in Edinburgh for £5,588, as a mere old article of amber. After careful attribution, the inconspicuous trinket was recognised as a Renaissance jewel bearing a portrait of Elizabeth, which added

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I cannot find a good-quality photograph of this act, but the document is very famous

I cannot find a good-quality photograph of this act, but the document is very famous. And it begins with the following words: Le Roy le Veult soit baillé aux Seigneurs. A cette Bille avecque des amendemens les Seigneurs sont assentuz. A ces Amendemens les Communes sont assentuz. And no,

London · Observations · Society

I noticed that the website of Royal Mail, the state post of the United Kingdom, works in two languages, English and Cymraeg, that is, Welsh

I noticed that the website of Royal Mail, the state post of the United Kingdom, works in two languages, English and Cymraeg, that is, Welsh. One wonders why only two, and why precisely these two? The United Kingdom has, in fact, no constitutionally enshrined state language. The status of English

London · Museums · Heritage · Society

The famous Bayeux Tapestry, created in the eleventh century for Bishop Odo, brother of William the Conqueror, will leave France for an exhibition at the British Museum

Historically, the tapestry (in essence a piece of linen embroidery almost 70 metres long) has been kept in the Norman town of Bayeux as a monument to the Norman conquest of England. The other day a French court permitted the temporary transportation of this fragile relic to Great Britain, despite

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this summer: London, Paris, New York

If your holiday happens to land you in one of the three art capitals, here are three exhibitions for each, worth carving out half a day for. London 🎨 Frida: The Making of an Icon. Tate Modern, from 22 June. More than 130 works by Frida Kahlo and a separate strand

Art · London · Museums · Paris · People

The artist Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of the second wave of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at the age of 97

Le Parc worked with light, mirrors, movement and optical effects: suspended mobiles, vibrating light installations, mirrored rooms, environments of projected light that "came to life" only in the presence of the viewer. He was guided by a single principle: art should turn the spectator from a passive observer

Coming Up · Art · Books · London

On 8 July Christie's will auction a rarest illuminated manuscript of the early fourteenth century, the Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, containing the first three texts of the Lancelot cycle

The estimate for the book is £1.5–2 million. The manuscript has spent 700 years in private hands, has never been publicly exhibited and has never been studied academically. It is now the earliest of the three privately owned copies of the cycle among the two hundred or so

The East · London · Museums · Society

British Museum Changes Captions Mentioning Palestine

On a panel about the Hyksos people of the 17th–16th centuries BC, the wording Palestinian descent has been replaced with Canaanite descent, and similar amendments have been made in the gallery of Egyptian sculpture. The changes followed a letter from the British lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel, which

Cinema · London · Society · Nature

There is a movement in England called Right to Roam, which concentrates on demanding that people be given back the ability to walk through a wood, a field or along a river without the risk of being accused of trespassing on private property

Hugh Thomson has made a documentary about it, Our Land, the premise of which is that in England and Wales 92% of the land is closed to public access, and local residents often cannot freely walk through the woods around their own village. In Scotland, a reform of 2003 opened