Jeff Koons’s big, shiny sculptures have the wow factor, but borrowing them for a museum comes at an eye-watering cost. Oxford’s Ashmolean spent just over $1 million transporting and installing 17 of ...

Thanks to an outpouring of public donations, the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University has successfully raised the last £60,000 ($90,000) needed to buy J.M.W. Turner’s 1810 painting titled, The High ...

Oxford’s historic art and archaeology museum has released its 2026 exhibition programme with an exciting offering including global botany and Greco-Roman goddesses. The major exhibitions for the ...

The unifying factor is that all the work on view is concerned with elements from the observable world: landscapes, portraits, domesticities, fantasies set in realistic frameworks, models in the ...

LONDON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, the oldest public museum in England, has reopened after a $102 million renovation that doubles its gallery space. The Oxford ...

WITHMORE THAN 50 Michelangelo drawings and nearly 70 by Raphael, the Ashmolean, the University of Oxford's museum of art and archaeology, has one of the largest and finest collections of Old Master ...

One of the world's finest collections of James Gillray's (1757-1815) work is owned by New College, Oxford, home to more than two thirds of Gillray's 1100 engravings. On the bicentenary of his death, ...

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Liane speaks to Christopher Brown, Director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. On New Year's Eve as revellers were celebrating the new millennium, thieves broke into the museum and stole a ...