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Watercolours move looks set to reap Academy rewards
26 January 2005FOR its seventh London staging, The Watercolours and Drawings Fair leaves its long-time home at the Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, and moves deeper into Mayfair to The Royal Academy, 6 Burlington Gardens, W1 where it will run from February 3 to 6 with a charity preview on the evening of February 2.
Gallery in miniature
18 January 2005The Victoria and Albert Museum will open a new Portrait Miniatures Gallery on March 2.

Third time unlucky for V&A
10 January 2005THE V&A has appealed for help from the art and antiques world in tracing the eight bronze plaques thought to be worth a total of £450,000 stolen in the third raid on the museum in three months.
Recollecting success at the V&A
04 January 2005LAUNCHED with a deal of success last year, when it attracted 10,000 visitors, COLLECT 2005 will be held at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum from January 12 to 17.

V&A review after second Ceramic Galleries theft
22 December 2004The Victoria and Albert Museum have updated security following a second theft from their Ceramic Galleries in as many months. While the new systems were installed, the galleries were closed for a week.

Clive of India flask remains in UK – law change suggested
22 December 2004A LEADING figure in the world of heritage is calling for a change in the export licence rules – after the decision to keep a valuable work of art in the UK.

Met pay $45m for Duccio’s ‘Stroganoff’ Madonna
01 December 2004THE Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has acquired a devotional panel of the Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna (active by 1278; died 1319) from the Stoclet family in Brussels.

British Museum raid mirrors V&A theft
11 November 2004POLICE investigating the theft of Tang and Yuan dynasty jewellery and body ornaments from the British Museum on October 29-30 believe the raid could be linked to the theft of Chinese jades from the Victoria and Albert Museum earlier last month.

£1.5m Gallé glass raid at museum
03 November 2004GLASSWORKS by Emile Gallé thought to be worth over £1.5m have been stolen from a Swiss museum. Thieves seized 15 items by the French master craftsman in the raid on the Neumann Foundation, housed in the castle of Gingins overlooking Lake Geneva, on October 27.
Seminar on the risks of moving art
28 October 2004BUYING and selling art and antiques is one thing, but what about transporting it from the place of sale to its destination?
New sculpture study gallery opens at V&A
28 October 2004THE V&A have opened the first new gallery in their £30m transformation programme.
RA fairs news at the double
20 October 2004NEXT year’s Watercolour and Drawings Fair will move to a new venue, the Royal Academy rooms at 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1, where it will run from February 3 to 6 with an opening evening preview on February 2.

Hodges’ War and Peace prints found after appeal
13 October 2004THE National Maritime Museum has purchased two prints from a London dealer following its appeal in the Antiques Trade Gazette for information about two missing William Hodges paintings.
Book now for Asian Art in London launch party
22 September 2004ASIAN Art in London will open with what promises to be a spectacular launch party at the Victoria & Albert Museum on Friday, November 5.
New London art fair mooted
22 September 2004PLANS are advanced for a new international London art fair next summer at the Royal Academy’s Burlington Gardens premises.

Fund seeks new buying direction
16 September 2004THE National Art Collections Fund (Art Fund) has criticised the state of public collecting in the UK on the same day as announcing a £500,000 offer to help keep the Macclesfield Psalter in the UK.
Saving museum is no child’s play
08 September 2004ONE of London’s most treasured small museums faces a funding crisis after a rent rise and the rejection of its grant application by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
No-gun slogans and other mottos
08 September 2004Badges by Philip Atwood, published by the British Museum Press. ISBN 0714150142 £7.99sb AMONG the British Museum’s priceless antiquities is the museum’s collection of some 12,000 badges. A small, hard-to-find exhibition, showing at the museum until January 16, presents just a tiny fraction of this archive.

The genius of Dresser 100 years on
01 September 2004THE Victoria and Albert Museum’s main autumn exhibition, opening this month, is devoted to a retrospective of Christopher Dresser, the pioneering designer who anticipated many of the major design styles of the 20th century. It is timed to coincide with the centenary of his death in 1904.
Gazette award for Asian Art
01 September 2004THE seventh annual Asian Art in London week will take place this year from November 4 to 12, with a launch party at the Victoria and Albert Museum on November 5.

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