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Kettle's Yard is back

12 Feb 2018

As Kettle's Yard opens its doors following a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment and transformation of its gallery spaces, the work of 38...

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Rama returns in victory to Ayodhya, Pahari (Punjab Hills), Kangra, c.1780-1790

Seventy years of Indian independence celebrated with summer exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum

06 Jun 2017

Two exhibitions and a new book have launched the Fitzwilliam Museum's celebration of the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence. The displays...

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Before and after detail of the Virgin Mary from the 'Adoration of the Shepherds'

Saving a renaissance masterpiece: Fitzwilliam Museum wins award for decade-long restoration

19 May 2017

A ten-year research and restoration project to save one of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Renaissance masterpieces was rewarded with a major national...

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Holbein’s satirical depictions of authority figures, such as the King in the Dance Of Death (left), are a far cry from later work such as his iconic portrait of Henry VIII (right).

Holbein’s Dance Of Death - the 16th century Charlie Hebdo

02 Nov 2016

He is best remembered for the magnificent portraits he produced as the court painter of Henry VIII; but a new study of Hans Holbein’s famous ‘Dance...

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Ben Nicholson, 1928 (Banks Head – Cumbrian Landscape).

Kettle’s Yard on the move to celebrate 50th anniversary

22 Oct 2016

Works by some of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries – including Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, LS Lowry and Helen Frankenthaler – are...

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Exhibition reunites artworks from Captain Scott’s final expedition – a century on

01 Aug 2016

A new exhibition has reunited the iconic photography of Herbert Ponting with the watercolours of Edward Wilson – more than a century after the two...

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Shrine in Tinghir, southern Morocco

Bringing Berber empires into focus as contributors to Islamic culture

06 Jul 2016

The Almoravid and Almohad empires flourished in the western Mediterranean of the 11th and 12th centuries. Despite controlling vast tracts of land...

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Students in the alternative classroom

Students and artist create an ‘alternative classroom’ at North Cambridge Academy

15 Jun 2016

An art partnership project between Kettle’s Yard, one of Britain’s best art galleries, and North Cambridge Academy opens its doors to the public on...

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Mussorgsky (Ilia Repin), Akhmatova (Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaia) and Dostoevsky (Vasily Perov)

Russian art in the limelight: paintings and portraits that tell remarkable stories

28 Apr 2016

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features paintings of some of Russia’s legendary creative figures. Russia and the Arts , which draws...

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Detail from Five Ships - Mounts Bay (1928) by Alfred Wallis

A Handful of Objects

23 Mar 2016

Five key objects from the world-class collections at Kettle’s Yard have been made available online to view through film, sound, photographs and 360...

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Virtual Florence: religious art is ‘restored’ to its original setting

10 Mar 2016

A team of experts has pieced together the architectural context of two treasures of Renaissance art in the National Gallery collection. The research...

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The Fitzwilliam Museum today

The Fitzwilliam Museum is 200 today

04 Feb 2016

Today, one of the great collections of art in the UK celebrates its bicentenary. Two hundred years to the day of his death, the Fitzwilliam Museum...

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