11 h. ago Kurt Cobain’s Unplugged guitar to go on show at London’s Royal College of Music Museum

Kurt Cobain’s Unplugged guitar to go on show at London’s Royal College of Music Museum  Kerrang!

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64 h. ago London Museum calls for staff to challenge ‘whiteness’ in diversity drive

Staff at the publicly-funded institution have been issued a pamphlet described as a ‘tool for culture change’

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66 h. ago London Museum urges staff to challenge problem of 'whiteness' in new workplace diversity drive

The publicly-funded museum focused on the history of London has reportedly created a leaflet to help staff to 'challenge embedded whiteness' in the workplace.

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4 d. ago Gucci Supports Tate Museum’s London Tate Collective Producers Program

Gucci Supports Tate Museum’s London Tate Collective Producers Program  WWD

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4 d. ago Pammy’s Baywatch showstopper, exploding bikinis and Nasa’s banned recordbreaker – Splash! review

Design Museum, LondonThis illuminating exhibition about all things swimming charts the birth of the bikini, its rapid shrinkage, lovely lidos – and the costumes that went too farFour days after a nuclear bomb was first detonated over the Pacific islands of Bikini Atoll in July 1946, the French designer Louis Réard launched a provocative two-piece swimsuit at a poolside party in Paris. The two events might not seem to be connected. But Réard, who had been looking for a name for his design that would embody the tiniest garment imaginable, combined with the most explosive impact possible, hit on the almighty atomic blast as the ideal symbol. And so the modern bikini was born.The world’s first bikini now hangs on a mannequin in the Design Museum in London, looking decidedly less earth-shattering than it did back then. Formed from baggy triangles of pink fabric, printed with a newspaper pattern and tied together with string, it looks a bit like someone has fashioned a quick cossie out of...

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4 d. ago Queen walks in footsteps of Charles Dickens on visit to his former home

Camilla visited the writer’s only remaining London home.

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4 d. ago Moment King's Guard horse goes to BITE tourist after woman gets a little too close in latest incident involving the royal animals

The female tourist was trying to pose for a photo outside the Household Cavalry Museum in London when she was forced to dodge the horse as it moved in to bite her in the face.

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4 d. ago Urgent warning to Pentagon staff to stop using Signal over fears Russian hackers can infiltrate encrypted chats

The OpSec (Operational Security) Special Bulletin, reportedly issued on March 18, came just days after the Trump administration mistakenly leaked war plans to a journalist

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5 d. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips

London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips  The Guardian

Culture

5 d. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design Museum in London this week. Growing up, school swimming lessons were “horrible, traumatic” – the cold water, the humiliation, the scrutiny from teenage boys. But something shifted when she moved to Margate 10 years ago and discovered the joy of swimming in the resort’s huge tidal pool, which was built in the 1930s. “This sounds quite pretentious, but it’s this idea of becoming one with the horizon,” says Butchart. “It’s almost like an existential feeling of the vastness of the world and being physically a part of that when you’re immersed in water. It’s transformational.”Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style explores our enduring love affair with swimming, from Britain’s lido boom of the 1920s and 30s to the Merma...

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5 d. ago Discover the 14,000 Ancient Roman Artifacts Just Donated to the London Museum

Discover the 14,000 Ancient Roman Artifacts Just Donated to the London Museum  Smithsonian Magazine

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5 d. ago ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and now even sells coffee

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. And now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for every person who’s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I’d be able to retire already,” says Axel Rüger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from leading the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Part of the Frick’s appeal is that it is a great museum that hardly feels like a museum at all. Even more than, say, the Wallace Collection in London – one of the inspirations behind the 5th Avenue landmark – the Frick has the feeling of being someone’s home, its contents selected by a singular eye.That’s because it was and they were. Both home and eye belonged to one man, the Pennsylvania-born coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, who was rich beyond imagining. It is not, ...

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5 d. ago ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for every person who’s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I’d be able to retire already,” says Axel Rüger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from leading the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Part of the Frick’s appeal is that it is a great museum that hardly feels like a museum at all. Even more than, say, the Wallace Collection in London – one of the inspirations behind the 5th Avenue landmark – the Frick has the feeling of being someone’s home, its contents selected by a singular eye.That’s because it was and they were. Both home and eye belonged to one man, the Pennsylvania-born coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, who was rich beyond imagining. It is not, thou...

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5 d. ago The London museum that is the most popular tourist attraction in the UK

The London museum that is the most popular tourist attraction in the UK  Time Out London

Culture

1 week ago Visitor numbers plunge at London art museums as Tate galleries lose 2.7 million in five years

Visitor numbers at Tate galleries have plunged by over 30 per cent since 2019

Politics

1 week ago White House calls judge challenging Trump deportation order a ‘Democrat activist’

Press secretary says judge who weighed legality of Trump deportation order ‘does not have that authority’The White House on Wednesday labeled the federal judge challenging the Trump administration on whether it defied his court order to halt flights deporting migrants without a hearing “a Democrat activist”.The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, singled out by name at a White House press briefing federal judge James Boasberg, who weighed the legality of Donald Trump’s deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, and is now evaluating the government’s compliance. Continue reading...

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1 week ago London Museum Lands a Monumental Gift of Roman Artifacts—See 3 Highlights

London Museum Lands a Monumental Gift of Roman Artifacts—See 3 Highlights  artnet News

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1 week ago London Museum receives Collection of Roman Artefacts and £20 Million for its Transformation

London Museum receives Collection of Roman Artefacts and £20 Million for its Transformation  ArtDependence

Economics

1 week ago Bloomberg donates 14,000 Roman artifacts and £20 million to the London Museum

Bloomberg donates 14,000 Roman artifacts and £20 million to the London Museum  The Jerusalem Post

Economics

1 week ago London Museum receives Roman artefacts and £20m gift from Bloomberg

London Museum receives Roman artefacts and £20m gift from Bloomberg  Museums Association

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