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Jude Evans
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Image: George Romney, The Gower Family, 1776-1777. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. ArtFunded 1974

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.

Art Quarterly

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.

Review

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.

2008/9 Review Introduction (PDF)

ArtFunded England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (PDF)
Gifts and Bequests (PDF)

 

Art Quarterly spring 2010

Treasure Trove
There was enormous excitement when a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was dug up in a Staffordshire field last autumn. Tristram Hunt explains how this once-in-a-lifetime find will help breathe life into a shadowy period of our history

People Power
Visitors to Manchester Art Gallery are currently enjoying a display of Ron Mueck’s work, which has gone on show as part of the ARTIST ROOMS tour. But why, asks Colin Wiggins, has such a popular artist had such a mixed critical reception?

Ife Enigma
Exactly a century ago a German explorer excavated an astonishing collection of sculptures in a Nigerian provincial town, unleashing fierce debate about who made them, what they were for, and how he acquired them. The British Museum’s new exhibition may cast new light on these mysterious works, says Nigel Barley

Master of Light
Christen Købke’s luminous paintings will go on display at the National Gallery this spring. David Jackson explores the career of a quiet revolutionary who became the shining star of Denmark’s Golden Age

Fact and Fiction
An exhibition currently showing in the town of his birth marks the 500th anniversary of Giorgione’s death. But who was this enigmatic artist, and did he actually paint the canvases ascribed to him? Mark Hudson attempts to unravel the mystery

Visit: The Ashmolean Museum
The new building is stunning, but what about the displays? Maev Kennedy goes to Oxford to investigate

Focus: Double Take
Venetia Porter describes how an Art Fund initiative is helping the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum to form a new collection

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