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An Oxford Museum May Have Accidentally Kept a Rembrandt Painting Languishing in Its Basement for 40 Years, New Tests Suggest

A painting once rejected as a lowly copy of the work of Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may be the real thing after all, announced the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on Friday. New scientific research has ...

Football shirt inspired by botanical painting is fastest selling in club history

A football shirt inspired by a Victorian botanical painting has become a runaway success with Oxford United fans ...
Artnet

How Much Does It Cost to Put on a Jeff Koons Show? Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum Just Spent $1 Million

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 ...
Mena FN

Ashmolean Museum In Bitter, 20-Year Dispute Over Augustus John Works

(MENAFN- USA Art News) Three brothers, heirs to part of an art collection that belonged to their grandfather, are in dispute with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK. The Ashmolean, founded in 1683 by ...
The Financial Times

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a new exhibition on at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, and it is…the Ashmolean Museum. Almost a year after ...
The Guardian

On the up: the Ashmolean museum strides into the 21st century

The redevelopment of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum cost £61m. Where has all that money gone? Looking from the street, it's hard to believe a single penny has been spent on this glorious early Victorian ...