Museum donation helps make fashionable acquisition 11 February 2013 The Design Museum has made its first significant fashion acquisition thanks to a donation by Jill Ritblat through the Art Fund. News
Appeal secures £3.9m Poussin 05 November 2012 An appeal launched by the Art Fund to save a Poussin painting for the nation has hit its £3.9m target. Art Market
Newlyn School still able to make net gains 26 October 2012 It wasn’t too long ago that Newlyn School artists were ranked right up alongside the leading lights of the Modern British art market. Art Market
Art Fund say new deal may save Wedgwood Museum after all 24 September 2012 Negotiations on a new rescue package have raised hopes of saving the Wedgwood Museum collection. Those involved expect to be able to unveil an agreement within the next few months. News
Banks turn to art as an asset 04 September 2012 There is growing evidence that financial institutions are looking much more seriously at art as an asset for investment and loan guarantees. News
Fitzwilliam needs £3.9m to secure Poussin 28 August 2012 The Art Fund has launched a campaign to save a painting by Nicolas Poussin for the nation. Art Market
Manet portrait will stay at Ashmolean 28 August 2012 Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has announced that it had succeeded in an eight-month campaign to save Edouard Manet’s ‘Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus’ for the nation. Art Market
Setting the benchmark at Masterpiece fair 13 July 2012 There was a positive air as the third ‘Masterpiece London’ fair closed after a week’s run in its lavish purpose-built pavilion at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Dealer News
What the nation saved… and what it didn’t 16 January 2012 THE latest UK government report on the export of works of art revealed that a modest £3.7m worth of treasures were saved for the nation in 2011 after being blocked from leaving the country last year. News
Cistern stays at Temple Newsam after funds secured 31 October 2011 A MASSIVE Queen Anne cistern, which set a new auction high for English silver when it sold for £2.2m in 2010, is now on display at the Tudor mansion Temple Newsam in Leeds after it was acquired for the nation.
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