The Great British Art Tour: from a ceiling alcove, an artist’s quiet gaze
Self Portrait (1900) by Emmeline Cust. Photograph: Dan Wray/National Trust Images Author, editor, translator, and sculptor Emmeline “Nina” Cust was born into Lincolnshire nobility in 1867 and came from a line of inquiring, intellectual women. Her mother, Victoria Welby, was a self-educated
Tearing down troubling statues is not lying about our history:it is removing impediments to truth
“We won’t allow people to censor our past or pretend we have a different history to the one we have.” So wrote Robert Jenrick, the UK’s communities secretary, in the Telegraph newspaper last week. Jenrick has just introduced legislation that,
Musée Rodin could be forced to release 3D scans of bronze sculptures
A legal case in Paris could force the Musée Rodin to release its 3D scans of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures and make them available to the public. The museum fears this could undermine its financial model, which partly relies on producing original editions of bronzes.
