Museums and Institutions

A sale of costumes from the Royal Opera House featured examples from a swathe of famous productions

Poole Museum has emerged as the buyer of a work on paper by John Piper (1903-92) that sold at a Roseberys auction last year.

'The London Original Print Fair' will be celebrating its 40th anniversary edition, which will take place at Somerset House from March 20-23

A witches cloak from 'Macbeth' or a corset from 'Così Fan Tutte' could find its way into your wardrobe at this theatrical pop-up shop in Wales

The Hans Coper (1920-81) mural that sold at a recent auction in Germany will be going in display in the UK this month, it has emerged.

The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket has put on display a portrait of Charles II which it bought at auction earlier this year.

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has acquired a Fra Angelico (fl.1417-55) Crucifixion scene which was blocked from export following its sale at Christie’s last year.

Among a group of works from the estate of the late photographer Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull sale was a photo taken at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in the early 1980s.

The Het Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands has acquired one of Vincent van Gogh’s (1853-1890) early portraits for €8.6m (£7.16m).

Following an 18-month conservation and research project at the Yale Center for British Art, an enigmatic double portrait that drew a dramatic competition at auction in 2021 is going on display at its new permanent home of Compton Verney.

Four Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) family portraits acquired under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme have gone go on public display for the first time.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned an ancient bronze funerary couch to Turkey after concluding that it had been illicitly excavated in the early 1980s.

Frederic Leighton’s 'Bay of Cádiz, Moonlight' will go on public display for the first time in 120 years at the artist’s former home after being bought at auction this summer.