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Culture Minister steps in to prevent rare Old Master painting from export.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Sir Nicholas Serota has been appointed the new Chair of Arts Council England
A temporary export bar has been placed on two 17th century ivory statuettes by Balthasar Permoser
John Whittingdale has extended the terms of appointment of Joe Docherty, Peter Phillips, Sheila Healy and Professor Jon Cook by six months and the term of appointment of Alistair Spalding by five months, all until 30 Septemb…
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Enterprising Libraries across the country will receive over £650,000 to support entrepreneurs.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Album of seventy photographs by one of the most important photographers of the 19th century is at risk of export unless a UK buyer can be found
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a newly discovered 16th Century manuscript, thought to be the earliest surviving English translation of any work by the great humanist scholar and reformer Desi…
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a marble sculpture of two young ladies dancing by the neoclassical Italian sculptor, Lorenzo Bartolini.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a Roman Imperial marble statue of the goddess Aphrodite.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder, ‘The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man.’
8 ‘National Treasures’ with a total value of £13.85 million saved from export this year
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey places a temporary export bar on a marble relief by John Flaxman, the renowned sculptor who served as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood.
Culture Minister places export bar on Giovanni da Rimini panel
Rocks are being delivered as work starts on the £30m scheme to protect 1,400 properties at Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme in Kent.
More than 1,400 properties between Camber and Lydd will benefit as work begins on the Broomhill Sands Coastal Defence Scheme in Kent.
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Maria Balshaw as a board member of Arts Council England.
Maria Miller appoints Sir Hayden Phillips GCB DL as Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest
Ed Vaizey issues temporary export bar to help find a UK buyer.
Ed Vaizey temporarily saves May Morris wall hangings
Ed Vaizey has temporarily blocked the sale of Napoleon Bonaparte's death mask
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