A celebrated star of screen and stage, Vanessa Redgrave has accused the Victoria and Albert Museum of a ‘fearful lack of knowledge’ over cuts planned by its director, the former Labour minister Tristram Hunt. The actress is furious that Hunt plans to axe its theatre and performance department, which is home to her father Sir … Read more
Did Argentina rob art from its own museum to fund the Falklands War? Military junta stole £1.8m of paintings from Buenos Aires gallery to buy arms from Taiwan, new book claims British academic claims art heist was staged by Argentina’s military Government Sixteen masterpieces vanished into thin air from national museum in the 1980s Just three … Read more
They were unreliable, unsafe, uneconomic, uncomfortable and, in many cases, downright ugly compared with what we drive around in today. Even so, you have to hand it to the cars of yesteryear. They had character. And they had colour, too. Just look around you on the roads or in the supermarket car park this weekend … Read more
They were unreliable, unsafe, uneconomic, uncomfortable and, in many cases, downright ugly compared with what we drive around in today. Even so, you have to hand it to the cars of yesteryear. They had character. And they had colour, too. Just look around you on the roads or in the supermarket car park this weekend … Read more
A museum devoted to Jane Austen has sparked fury by announcing plans to her subject the author to a ‘historical interrogation’ over alleged links to the slave trade. The celebrated author – and noted abolitionist – wrote Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park while living in a cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, which has now … Read more
Jane Austen’s love of tea is to be investigated as part of a ‘historical interrogation’ into her links to the slave trade. The celebrated author wrote Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park while living in a cottage in the Hampshire village of Chawton, which has now been turned into a museum. Staff at the home devoted to … Read more
And you thought you needed a lockdown haircut! World record-holding real-life Rapunzel makes the cut and sends her snipped mane to Hollywood museum Nilanshi Patel from India grew her locks to a staggering 5ft 7in when she was 16 But she even increased this to 6ft 6.7in in time for her 18th birthday in July … Read more
Emily Ratajkowski bares her taut post-baby midriff in a black bra top as she and a pal take in an exterior art exhibit outside NYC’s Metropolitan Museum By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 17:19 BST, 10 April 2021 | Updated: 17:28 BST, 10 April 2021 She is mother to a newborn son. But on Friday, Emily Ratajkowski took … Read more
Egypt held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, Cairo, where Egypt’s first Islamic … Read more
Egypt held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, Cairo, where Egypt’s first Islamic … Read more