Original drawings from the creators of some of the best loved children’s books of all time, including Quentin Blake and Eric Carle, have gone on public display for the first time before an auction at Sotheby’s on Thursday to raise funds for a permanent £6.5m museum of illustration in London.
Quentin Blake drawings auctioned to raise money for illustration museum
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European Museum of the Year Award 2011
The European Museum Forum is inviting European museums to take part in the competition for the European Museum of the Year Award 2011 (EMYA 2011). The Award was established in 1977 and is the most prestigious of its kind in Europe. It will be presented for 34th time in 2011. Throughout these years, EMYA has been a dynamic tool for the recognition of innovation, excellence and public quality in museums. It helped to explore the changes in the European museum field and it served as an instrument of international networking, bringing together the most advanced projects and people in the museum profession.
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How the National Gallery uses science to spot fakes and masterpieces
On the lower floor of thtional Gallery, in mind from the museumagnificent Italian collection, there’s a little picture of the mother who’s handing carnations towards the baby on her behalf lap. The shades from the painting, although a lot more than five centuries old, are wealthy and luminous. The materials from the woman’s dress are thoroughly folded as the tracery of veil round her mind is portrayed with breathtaking skill.
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Vincent Van Gogh’s poppies still missing
A Van Gogh painting wo (£32m) stoleom aeum in Cair still mng, despite reviews it had been retrieved several hours following a robbery.
Zaha Hadid tipped to win Stirling prize for architecture
Zaha Hadid, the Iraq-bish architect e avgarde desigave battto win acceptance inside the Uk, was last evening expected since the favorite to win the country’s top architecture award for just about any sinuous museum of twenty-first century art in Rome the Royal Institute of British Designers regards as her best building yet.
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Gormley’s fourth plinth antics are no match for the National Gallery
The busker as you’re watching National Gallery features a marionette of John Lennon that he’s jiggling with time to Beatles hits. Just a little crowd has collected. It’s bigger, really, in comparison to audience - virtually zero - that presently congregates around the person searching in the plinth near to the Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing.
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What’s the big idea behind the Pompidou-Metz?
This is often a very strh. What first strieye in regards to the -Metz is its bizarre, undulating roof. This complex structure, produced from believe it or not than 10 miles of laminated brighten and larch, is certainly an amazing creation, drooping inside the concrete, steel and glass core in the building in the apparently random fashion, as if a passing bird had dropped an enormous floppy hat on its mind.
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Leonardo da Vinci painting is put at risk by loan from Poland to London
One of the world’s finest paintings might not survive the journey to London for the National Gallery’s blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci exhibition next year, according to a group of Polish experts fighting to keep the Renaissance masterpiece at home.
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Daunting, dazzling - and doomed
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Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills
This project underscores the critical role within our nation’s museums and libraries in aiding people build such twenty-first century capabilities as information, communications and technology literacy, critical thinking, problem fixing, creativity, social literacy, and global awareness.
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