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Moving out

Moving out

The Gallery library is moving

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Alfred O'Keeffe

Alfred O'Keeffe

...was born on this day in 1858 in Long Gully, Australia

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Bonne fête!

Bonne fête!

It's Bastille Day - the French national holiday

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Final week...

Final week...

...of both the FIFA World Cup AND the Art of the Dustjacket. 

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Lorton, Cumberland by Tom Chadwick

Lorton, Cumberland by Tom Chadwick

This article first appeared as 'Wood engraving artist finally won recognition' in The Press on 27 June 2014.

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Judgment Day

Judgment Day

You can't judge a book by its cover is how the saying goes.

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Great Scot!

Great Scot!

The holy grail of dustjackets is a first edition of the Great Gatsby

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Miniature canvas

Miniature canvas

Artists you may associate with very big canvases, also worked on very small ones

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Director mucks in

Director mucks in

Back in 1986, when exhibition crates arrived, not only did they have to be manhandled through the front-door, but the Director himself got up on the back of the truck and supervised the operation.

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Now that's what I call sound art

Now that's what I call sound art

OK, so yesterday we heard about ""sound art"", today let's record the birthday of Richard Wagner, the world's greatest composer of opera, in 1813. Happy 201st.

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