The Shropshire tourist attraction and working farm was closed down after an E coli outbreak and campaigners fear it may never reopenOf the handful of historic working farms in the UK, Acton Scott Farm is perhaps the best known. The Shropshire farm was …
Bamboo airports and psychedelic oil refineries: Richard Rogers’ thrilling legacy
The visionary architect behind some of the world’s favourite landmarks – and some of its most expensive housing – has died aged 88. Our critic assesses his impactHe may have hung up his pencil in 2020, but Richard Rogers was never the retiring type. Th…
Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds exhibit comes to LA’s Skirball Center
Spaceship models, Kirk’s captain’s chair, plenty of props—and so many Tribbles
Louis Wain’s anthropomorphic cats to go on display at Bethlem museum
Eccentric artist was famed for outlandish drawings produced while a patient at ‘Bedlam’ psychiatric hospital“He has made the cat his own,” HG Wells once said of Louis Wain. “English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of the…
Welcome to my micro museum
Whether it’s a love of lawnmowers or mustard pots, these enthusiasts have turned niche hobbies into full-time obsessions. Michael Segalov has a wander around six unusual collectionsThe British gardening machine industry was the biggest and best in the …
Unseen Van Gogh sketches that rework scorned masterpiece to go on display
Preparatory work for ‘redoing’ of The Potato Eaters – savaged in his lifetime – to feature in exhibitionA collection of Vincent van Gogh’s preparatory drawings sketched ahead of a planned “redoing” of The Potato Eaters, a masterpiece brutally slated by…
Scientists discover Welsh ‘dragon’ dinosaur – the size of a chicken
Pendraig milnerae was related to T rex and likely to have been apex predator despite its size, say expertsA dinosaur distantly related to Tyrannosaurus rex – but with a body the size of a chicken – that would probably have ruled the roost about 200m ye…
Francis Bacon estate implies artist’s friend created parts of Tate collection
New book says many pieces in Barry Joule Archive bear ‘scant resemblance’ to artist’s work, but donor insists they are realThe Estate of Francis Bacon has launched an astonishing personal attack on Barry Joule, one of the artist’s friends, and the vast…
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We would like to hear about what you’re enjoying most about returning to cinemas, museums and galleries now that UK coronavirus restrictions have liftedWe would like to hear about what you’re enjoying most about returning to cinemas, museums and galler…
Essex art gallery endangered by funding crisis named museum of the year 2021
Firstsite’s ‘innovation and integrity’ during pandemic wins Art Fund’s £100,000 prizeA gallery that six years ago was placed in special funding measures because of concerns over its viability has been named winner of the world’s largest museum prize.Th…