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		<title>Art Fund International &#8216;Reflections and Directions&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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On the Programme page we announce an Art Fund International exhibition at the Bristol Museum &#38; Art Gallery from 6 October &#8211; 2 December called History.  More details to follow.  In the meantime, Julia Carver, the Collections Officer responsible for this area of the Fine Art Collection, has provided the following report:
&#8220;In 2010 the museum made a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Parr Acquisitions for the Fine Art Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Following his Autumn 2011 exhibition at M Shed, the Friends of Bristol Art Gallery contributed £1,000 towards the purchase of 10 Martin Parr photographs, of which the two shown on the Acquisitions page and the two shown here are examples.
The Visual Art, Public History and Communities teams at the Museum debated long and hard over the final selection but were in agreement on a representative group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol Museums &amp; Archives announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bristol Museums Galleries and Archives have been announced as a Major partner for Arts Council England.  This means that they are one of 16 museums nationally who will receive funding as part of the Arts Council’s Renaissance programme for regional museums.
Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Plymouth City Museum &#38; Art Gallery are also amongst the 16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Princess Royal officially opens M Shed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Princess Royal officially opened M Shed on Wednesday, 14 December 2011.  Among the guests invited to meet her was our Chairman, Joanna Brown.   When speaking with Joanna, the Princess said she recognised the importance of Friends’ groups.
During her tour of the museum’s three galleries the Princess Royal was introduced to Princess Campbell MBE, Bristol’s first Black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress with the Lift Project &#8211; January 2012 Update 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bray &#38; Slaughter, the main contractors on the project, started in earnest from 9 January and major interventions of the building&#8217;s fabric will be apparent soon.   Building the access points to the Lift will be undertaken from February to April and refurbishment of the toilets on the Ground Floor has commenced.
inside
Temporary toilets along the back wall of the Rear Hall are now use during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purchase of rare Yixing Teapots</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Friends are currently funding the purchase of two Chinese teapots. They will look great together when they are eventually put on display (this report will be updated at that time) and are wonderful examples of the type of Yixing wares that influenced English ceramic design so strongly in the 17th/18th centuries.

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This early 18th century globular teapot features crisp modelling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance in lieu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;

Soon we will be able to bring you news of an important painting recently received by the Art Gallery (and currently with conservators for examination), as a result of the Payment in Lieu Scheme.  The following information is for members who may not be aware of this scheme:
The Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Scheme is administered by the MLA.  It enables taxpayers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Georgian House garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[has had a makeover which members on the tours of the House and Garden saw last October.  Below are pictures of the garden as it was, and as it looks now. The tours are being repeated on 9 and 10 May 2012 - see Full List of Events
The Friends of Bristol Art Gallery contributed funding towards the Urns and Trellis.






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		<title>Public Catalogue Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the UK, four in five of all oil paintings held in Art Galleries, and other public buildings, are held in storage not on view usually because there are insufficient funds and space to show them.]]></description>
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		<title>New image for The Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're having an image makeover!

Previously The Friends promotional material and the Bulletin masthead have carried the image of Sir Peter Blake's Owl &#038; the Pussy Cat. Recently, the committee decided it was time for a change ]]></description>
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