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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Wild Side
A show of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs is about to open in Sheffield as
part of the ARTIST ROOMS tour. Mark Haworth-Booth recalls a
controversial artist whose work still divides critical opinion
Artful Display
Are museums places for private aesthetic contemplation, repositories of
national identity or somewhere to flirt and parade the latest fashions? The way
galleries display their art says a lot about how they view their visitors, says
Charlotte Klonk
English Eccentrics
How do you define British art? Martin Gayford ponders the central question
of The Great British Art Debate – a series of exhibitions and events taking
place around the country
Picturing Movement
This year marks the centenary of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, which
provided a showcase for some of the most exciting artists of the day. Sjeng
Scheijen explains why the productions were often praised more for their design
than their dancing
Word and Image
As the Hayward Gallery presents a major Ed Ruscha retrospective, Charles
Darwent looks at the uneasy relationship between the verbal and the visual in
his paintings
Visit: The Wedgwood Museum
Tristram Hunt spends a day in the Potteries
Focus: Virtue and Vice
James Hall explains the genesis of a Giambologna
sculpture that will have pride of place in the V&A’s newest
galleries