Art Quarterly

Art Quarterly is the prestigious publication of the Art Fund, offering over 80 pages filled with stunningly designed articles, interviews, and discussions among artists, as well as unique photography and illustrations.

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How the Palace of Versailles acted as a cradle of scientific invention

Jan 7, 2025 | artfund.org | Anna Ferrari

An exhibition at London‘s Science Museum shows how the French courts of Kings Louis XIV-XVI were as renowned for their innovation as their opulence. A version of this article first appeared in the winter 2024 issue of Art Quarterly, the membership magazine of Art Fund. Although the Palace of Versailles is often associated with its art, architecture and spectacle, it is less well known as a place of serious scientific endeavour under the reigns of the French kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI.
The War of the Worlds: Read & Performed by Gav Cross

Dec 5, 2024 | artfund.org | H.G. Wells

Don’t miss this extraordinary reimagining of The War of the Worlds, where past and future collide in a gripping, atmospheric production that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Step into the heart of one of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written, as The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is brought to life in a thrilling new abridged reading by Gav Cross.
Delaine Le Bas and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas on Roma art

Sep 24, 2024 | artfund.org | Hettie Judah

Delaine Le Bas and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas share stories about their creative influences, life experiences and proud cultural heritage with Hettie Judah. A version of this article first appeared in the autumn 2024 issue of Art Quarterly, the membership magazine of Art Fund. Who is Delaine Le Bas? Born in the UK in 1965, Delaine Le Bas works across media including performance, sound and painting, exploring feminist issues as well as questions of nationhood and land rights.
Online talk: Mary Robinson: Celebrity, a Conversation with Paula Byrne & Hilary Davidson

Sep 2, 2024 | artfund.org | Hilary Davidson |Paula Byrne

At the height of her fame in the 1780s, Mary Robinson was one of the most famous (and infamous) women in England. Newspapers and magazines were full of sightings of her out and about in London high society, and keenly documented her trend-setting fashion choices, as well as gossiping about her personal life. She was one of the pioneers of modern celebrity.
Local Communities Museum Of The Home

Jun 17, 2024 | artfund.org | David Trigg

With support from an Art Fund New Collecting Award, the Museum of the Home has worked with its local communities to tell more inclusive stories. A version of this article first appeared in the summer 2024 issue of Art Quarterly, the magazine of Art Fund.
How avant-garde artists have embraced gardens

Jun 7, 2024 | artfund.org | Giovanni Aloi

As living constructions, created with care and purpose by humans and plants, gardens can tell complex and intimate histories; over the centuries, artists have used them in increasingly radical ways. A version of this article first appeared in the summer 2024 issue of Art Quarterly, the magazine of Art Fund. We left early one drizzly morning in late May 2004. It was Maria’s wish to travel to Dungeness. I was studying art history; she was studying film.
Bobby Baker And Eileen Cooper On Art And Motherhood

Mar 7, 2024 | artfund.org | Hettie Judah

Appearing together in two group shows of women artists, Bobby Baker and Eileen Cooper discuss feminism, art school and the influence of parenthood on their work. A version of this article first appeared in the spring 2024 issue of Art Quarterly, the magazine of Art Fund. Who are Bobby Baker and Eileen Cooper? Bobby Baker was born in 1950 in Kent.
Herbert Ponting And Lawrence Oates Illustrated Talk By Anne Strathie

Feb 24, 2024 | artfund.org | Herbert Ponting |Anne Strathie

Herbert Ponting and Lawrence Oates: illustrated talk by Anne StrathieLawrence Oates was only one of many expedition members Herbert Ponting photographed and filmed during Robert Scott’s Terra Nova expedition. When news broke in early 1913 of the deaths of Scott, Oates and other members of the South Pole party, images of Oates and his companions appeared in publications all over the world, in expedition reports, exhibitions, postcards and in Ponting’s cinema-lectures.
Courtly Mediators Global Gifts In Italian Renaissance Collections By Leah R Clark

Feb 21, 2024 | artfund.org | Leah Clark

This talk will draw on my recent book, Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World, which argues that the collecting culture of the Renaissance, rather than simply a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance, was also underscored by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond. Leah R.
Yinka Shonibare on turning difficult histories into inclusive art

Feb 7, 2024 | artfund.org | Helen Sumpter

On the unveiling of a new public sculpture in Leeds, the artist speaks to the editor of Art Quarterly about art, agriculture, honours and cultural exchange. A version of this article first appeared in the winter 2023 issue of Art Quarterly, the magazine of Art Fund. Who is Yinka Shonibare CBE RA? Born in London in 1962, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA spent his childhood in Nigeria, before returning to London to study at Byam Shaw School of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London.