Timeless Travels Magazine

30/05/2024

Thinking about visiting the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford? Don't miss their 'exceptional' exhibition of Flemish masters that finishes on the 23rd June! See our review:

See the exceptional exhibition of Flemish Masters at the Ashmolean Museum

30/05/2024

Caravaggio's last painting is on display at the National Gallery until 21st July. We think it is a 'must see' - so don't miss it!

Caravaggio's last known painting, The Martyrdom of St Ursula, is on loan to the National Gallery from Naples. Don't miss it!

30/05/2024

A wonderful new exhibition on Michelangelo, described as 'tender and brilliant' is now showing at the British Museum. Read our review:

The new exhibition at the British Museum features the drawings of Michelangelo from his final years in Rome.

25/06/2023

Celebrating the National Portrait Gallery’s reopening this summer the First Look Festival (on now until the 2nd July 2023) gives you the chance to celebrate and experience the all new National Portrait Gallery.

From artist talks and curator tours, to practical workshops and DJ sets, festival highlights include in-conversations with artist Tracey Emin and architect Jamie Fobert. A special in-conversation event with Paul McCartney and Stanley Tucci will headline the Festival on the 29th June.

Meet the gallery's curators, take part in art and photography workshops and attend a variety of free events including poetry performances and descriptive events for partially sighted visitors.

For families, the festival includes a range of free activities on Saturday 1 July, where you can discover the new spaces and faces through trails, storytelling sessions and family tours. Young people can take part in a variety of free activities including artist workshops, tours, spoken word, music and film screenings on Sunday 2 July.

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From artist talks and curator tours, to practical workshops and DJ sets, festival highlights include in-conversations with artist Tracey Emin and architect Jamie Fobert.

01/02/2023

Wonderful treasures from the Hispanic world can now be seen at Royal Academy of Arts. Read our review by Theresa Thompson!

“The best collection of Spanish and Hispanic art outside of Spain” has come to London. At any rate, a selection of it has, calling at the Royal Academy in this wonderful exhibition that showcases some of the best pieces and artists from Spain.

15/10/2022

Some very exciting news from Florence! A painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, 'Allegory of Inclination' was painted in 1616 as one of the ceiling panels at Casa Buonarroti, now Florence's museum dedicated to the memory of Michelangelo, is being restored. Visitors to Casa Buonarroti will be able to see the painting being restored in situ. The project is funded by Calliope Arts and British art collector, Christian Levett. Find our more and watch the video about this wonderful project!

Florence’s home-museum dedicated to the memory of Michelangelo embarks on the restoration of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of Inclination (1616), one of the first paintings the artist created during her 7-year sojourn in Florence. From now until April 2023, it will be restored in public view,...

26/06/2022

We can't recommend this latest Only In Guides - City Guides for Independent Cultural Travellers guidebook to Seville highly enough. Written by Duncan J. D. Smith it is a fascinating, well-researched and a delight to read, and it introduces you to a different side of Seville's culture and traditions. Explore Seville’s grand palaces and secret convents, artistic havens, secluded patios and fervent traditions, either from your comfortable armchair or in person.

The Only In guide books are a joy to anyone who is interested in discovering unique locations, hidden corners and unusual objects that make up the history of a city.

08/02/2022

I have been watching a lot of lectures at the moment by Academy Travel. They started during lockdown, but their content is still so varied and interesting that I am sometimes watching four lectures a week! They have both one off lectures and a series of lectures over a number of weeks. Over the last few weeks I have been to Bilbao, Leon, Burgos and Sardinia. I have been introduced to the mosaics in Ravenna and I am currently watching a series of superb lectures on Venice by Robert Veel, founder of Academy Travel. Coming up for me are lectures on Puccini and Hieronymus Bosch...but the list is long and varied! Can't recommend them highly enough. See more at https://courses.academytravel.com.au/online-lectures

20/01/2022

Another fascinating book from Thames & Hudson! You may have beard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but these are the Red Sea Scrolls. They are the world's oldest surviving written documents and not only that, they are connected to the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, nearly 5,000 years ago. Beautifully illustrated this is definitely one for your bookshelf!

A fascinating new book has recently been published by Thames & Hudson on the world's oldest surviving written documents discovered by archaeologist Pierre Tallet at the site of Wadi el-Jarf, an ancient harbour, on the Red Sea. What makes the scrolls so exciting, is that they are an account of how 'a...

25/11/2021

Another exhibition recommended by our Arts Correspondent, Theresa Thompson. This one is all about Miss Clara, an 18th century celebrity rhino The Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Read on to find out more!

An Indian rhinoceros called ‘Miss Clara’, or more accurately an 18th century bronze model of a rhino that has been a highlight of the Barber Institute of Fine Art’s collection for years, is now the star of a fascinating exhibition at Birmingham University.

31/10/2021

Two new exhibitions at Compton Verney in Warwickshire which should be added to your list of ones to visit...Many thanks to our intrepid arts correspondent, Theresa Thompson, for bringing us these gems!

I drove home through a Nash-ian landscape. Sloping green fields, blue skies, rounded trees, and long shadows cast by the late afternoon sunshine of an idyllic English autumn. It was as if John Nash had been there before me, painting in watercolour or oil the English landscapes he loved. I had been r...

18/10/2021

A fantastic new book from Egyptologist Garry Shaw, published by Thames & Hudson, who takes us on a journey to the major sites along the Nile. He not only describes what you can see today, but places each site within its ancient Egyptian history and includes the myths and legends of the Egyptian gods and goddess that are attached to each site. A highly recommended read!

Although travel is now opening up a little, it is still difficult to reach all the places on our bucket list. So this latest book from Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw is a welcome addition to our bookshelves. He takes us on a tour along the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape which is pop...

28/09/2021

A new sculpture has been unveiled in Oxford...and for those of us who are unable to text using two thumbs, this is a wonderful reminder of what 'proper' writing is all about!

Sir Michael Craig-Martin RA this week unveiled his first public work of art in the UK: a giant magenta pink Fountain Pen that stands balancing on its nib on the forecourt of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

05/08/2021

A new exhibition Ashmolean Museum, Tokyo: Art and Photography is as exciting as the hype around it says Theresa Thompson, TT's art correspondent. So is she right? Why not check it out for yourself - it's on until January next year.

Tokyo: Art & Photography is a celebration of one of the world’s most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities, announces the publicity blurb. And for once the hyperbole seems spot on; you sense it yourself as soon as you step into this thrilling exhibition.

17/05/2021

A wonderful new exhibition showing Pre-Raphaelite drawings and watercolours opens tomorrow at the Ashmolean Museum. These rare documents are usually kept in drawers to preserve them and only seen by appointment. So don't miss this opportunity to see them - but hurry - the exhibition is only on until the 20th June.

A rare opportunity to see drawings and watercolours by the artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Normally such works of art are kept in protective boxes, but they are now available to view for a short time.