Art Quarterly, our highly acclaimed magazine, and our annual Review, a compendium of the works The Art Fund has helped to purchase during the year, are sent free of charge to all our members.
Richly produced and full of lively articles by celebrated art experts, writers and personalities such as Joan Bakewell, Martin Gayford, Joanna Lumley and Alexander McCall Smith, Art Quarterly is a publication that people collect and go on enjoying long after new issues arrive.
Thought-provoking features entertain, educate and inform, keeping readers in touch with current events in the art world. Extensive coverage of Art Fund campaigns and grant-giving activities helps to stimulate debate. We also keep members informed about our work by highlighting acquisitions made with their help, events, lectures and special offers.
Art Quarterly appears every quarter, with issues published spring (March), summer (June), autumn (September) and winter (December).
View a sample article from Art Quarterly.
Each year we publish a catalogue of all the works of art acquired by museums and galleries with the help of Art Fund members during the preceding year. We are now delighted to make the 2008/2009 Review available on-line for even more people to enjoy.
The 2008/2009 Review begins with a section at the front outlining The Art Fund’s history and setting out our main activities.
Also included is the catalogue of works of art acquired with your help, listed alphabetically by location and accompanied by an entry written by the museum curator responsible.
We hope you enjoy reading the Review, and that by making it available on-line we help throw a little light on how The Art Fund works.
If you would like to find out how you can obtain a copy of the Review, please call 020 7225 4800.
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Campaigning for Art
David Barrie reflects on how The Art Fund has developed during his seventeen years as Director
Celestial Images
In 1609 Galileo’s pioneering observations about the universe rocked the scientific world. But how did artists react? Andrew McKie investigates
Imperial Fairyland
A major exhibition at the newly expanded Hermitage Amsterdam brings to life
the splendour of Russian court life in the 19th century. Helen Rappaport argues
that Russian cultural identity is still bound up with the riches of the
Romanovs
Beyond Bloomsbury
Designer Cressida Bell grew up in a Bloomsbury household, where furniture, fabrics and ceramics from the Omega Workshops were part of everyday life. As the Courtauld Gallery prepares to unveil a major exhibition on the subject, she reflects on what Omega designs have meant to her
Creating the Cosmos
On display at the British Museum this summer are a number of newly discovered paintings from the royal courts of Jodhpur, several of them illustrating the origins of the cosmos. Anna Dallapiccola unravels the complex Hindu creation myths that underpin these unique works
Visit: The Stanley Spencer Gallery and Sandham Memorial Chapel
It is fifty years since Sir Stanley Spencer’s death. Frances Spalding marks the anniversary by visiting two artistic shrines
The Aesthete and the Visionary
The artist and aesthete W Graham Robertson was a great admirer of William Blake’s mystical images. William Vaughan reveals how – sixty years ago –The Art Fund helped secure works from his outstanding Blake collection for UK museums and galleries