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Congratulations to Dr Flavia Frigeri on her appointment as Curatorial and Collections Director at the National Portrait Gallery.

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News | National Portrait Gallery appoints curatorial and collections director museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

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Looking forward to seeing The Face Magazine: Culture Shift at the National Portrait Gallery. Plenty of iconic images - reviewed in the Sunday Times (£) www.thetimes.com/article/8fe5...

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Excited to get to work on this! Thank you @theees.bsky.social for trusting us with this wonderful chair.

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Beatrix Potter's 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice' comes to life at her former farmhouse, Hill Top in Cumbria 🐭 Over 300 hours of conservation work has recently been carried out on Potter's former doll's house, which has seen scenes from the 1904 novel come to life 🧵

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Happy Valentines Day! Art gallery and a fancy meal, right?

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"Up and down today’s art world, on all its levels, we are watching a retreat from reason and a stampede towards unreason." - Waldemar Januszczak takes us on a whistlestop tour of Magic and Occult on display today including the excellent Tarot at the Warburg Institute www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

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Its #WorldRadioDay and podcasts are just radio on demand so if you ever tire of the #Radio3 archives for your arts fix we recommend: Talk Art with Russel Tovey and Robert Diament. Strong suggestion to dig into their interviews with Dame Tracy Emin open.spotify.com/show/1rnFyso...

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With half-term on the horizon, this week we're bringing you our top pick of Exhibitions in the UK for anyone staying at home. 1: Turner In Light and Shade at the Whitworth in Manchester Marking the 250th anniversary of Turner's birth. www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

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Charles Dickens was born #OnThisDay in 1812. In 2012 we manufactured mounts for the redevelopment of the #CharlesDickens #Museum. Objects were mounted to appear in situ and we enjoyed the challenges of a non-standard display, making mounts as if they were part of the furniture. #Exhibition

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Speculation in @artreview.bsky.social grows around who 79-year-old art dealer Larry Gagosian with eighteen exhibition spaces and an estimated turnover of $1bn might pass the business on to. Is he the art-world’s Logan Roy? artreview.com/artist/larry... #succession

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"New Contemporaries is an important show, one of the few genuinely helpful exhibitions in the art calendar." Bold as ever from Waldemar Januszczak in The Times. #WhatsOn #ICA #ContemporaryArt www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

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Today, we celebrate the birthday of Gillian Ayres (1930–2018), a visionary of abstract art! 🌟 Her vibrant, large scale works on canvas bring joy to our conservation studio as we preserve her legacy for future generations. #ModernArt #Abstract #GillianAyres plowden-smith.com/fine-art-res...

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"Framing doesn't just affect the piece's immediate aesthetic it affects how the piece is going to be in 5, 10 even 50 years time." Greg Conn - The Urban Framer #OpenEdition @myartbroker.bsky.social

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"With larger works on paper there are more nuances to every element: both the weight and structure of a large work on paper, and the structure and integrity of large scale sheet materials that support the work affect the complexity of mounting and framing" Victoria #OpenEdition Preserving Value

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Opening gambit from Open Edition - Preserving Value webinar "How do investors ensure the value of the work they purchase stands the test of time?" @myartbroker.bsky.social

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Happy Lunar New Year! Today the year of the snake begins and we've been working on a set of brass zodiac heads in our metals workshop. Corrosion appeared on each animal and the patination was not consistent. We cleaned, restored and re-waxed the complete set to make each item match. #LunarNewYear

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Plans for renovation are afoot at the Louvre with a new dedicated access route for the Mona Lisa announced by Emmanuel Macron to limit over-crowding. #MonaLisa #Louvre www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Jackson Pollock was born this day in 1912 Blue Poles was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia in August 1973 for A$ 1.3 Million amid substantial controversy as the high sum was approved by Labour PM Gough Whitlam. In 2023 the work was valued at A$ 500 million quite the investment.

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"One of the hottest names in art has the talent of an old master." Waldemar Januszczak for The Times reviews Lynette Yiadom-Boakye "Keep The Moon Amongst Ourselves" at Corvi-Mora in Kennington until 01.03.25 www.thetimes.com/culture/art/... #Art #Exhibition #Painting #Review #Gallery #WhatsOn

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With Wallace and Gromit nominated for an Oscar for Best animated feature, rich with easter-eggs, we think they deserve it just for the Kintsugi teapot which makes an appearance in the final scene. #wallaceandgromit #oscars #kintsugi #ceramics

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Our paper conservator Victoria Haddock is speaking on the Open Edition panel on best practice in Restoration, Conservation & Framing. Open Edition is a @myartbroker.bsky.social initiative speaking exclusively to the prints and multiples market. Register here: www.myartbroker.com/events #ArtMarket

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London Art Fair opens today in Islington, we'll be sharing our highlights through the day here and on Instagram #ArtFair

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We're new to Bluesky and looking for conservators, galleries, gallerists, registrars, curators, art consultants, artists, museums, trusts and more to talk conservation, restoration and exhibitions with. Let us know who you recommend and we'll keep adding our finds in the thread below.

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Discoveries from Pompeii have fascinated archaeologists for generations but this... this is a big one: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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