Florence McCrae

One hundred and thirty days ago today, Vincent van Gogh, one of the Netherland’s most renowned painters, died. Experts believe that they have found the location of his final work thanks to a postcard and a pandemic.

The CEO of Heathrow has criticised the government’s current quarantine model, instead advocating for airport testing to avoid falling off the “cliff edge”.

Over the past two decades, Nathalie Bondil and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts have become synonymous. Indeed, in early July, the minister of culture and communications for the province of Quebec noted “the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is Nathalie Bondil!”

The prime minister of Spain has called the imposed 14-day quarantine on all those returning to the UK from Spain “unjust”.

As businesses respond to the current crisis, the owner of independent corporate finance business, Pall Mall Capital, speaks with The Leaders Council regarding the pandemic and the best way to move forward. Meanwhile the prime minister has taken efforts to tackle the country’s obesity levels.

A Banksy triptych is almost a juxtaposition in terms – the former associated with popular culture, the latter more at home in the renaissance. Yet 2020, a year full of surprises, had one more up its sleeve – the infamous artist’s decision to auction of his work for a Bethlehem hospital.

A minister has said that the government had to act "rapidly and decisively" in order to impose a quarantine on those arriving into the UK from Spain.

In another world, the Royal Academy would be holding its annual Summer Exhibition right now. Instead, it now hopes to open today, following an almost four-month closure, yet another cultural casualty of Covid-19.

Channel 4’s 37-year-old archive would pose a challenge for even the most avid television watcher. Its estimated 14,000 hours of footage would provide a conservative two years of viewing, if watched back to back.

Normally spending $420.9 million in under four hours would be considered a little reckless to say the least. For Christie’s, this is the future.

Once reserved for Halloween and the occasional masquerade ball, 2020 has seen masks become commonplace. Indeed, from 24 July, the humble mask will become even more ubiquitous, as the government has ruled that every shop-goer in England must wear one or risk a £100 fine.

In the past week, Oliver Dowden’s miraculous £1.57 billion for the arts has received more praise than he knows what to do with. Yet there is one sub-section of the arts that remains concerned. In the words of Tristram Fane Saunders “the funny business is in serious trouble.”

The announcement of a £705 million funding package to manage Britain’s borders post-Brexit has been defended by Michael Gove.

The last time I visited the National Gallery, coronavirus was still confused with the name of a beer. Now, 111 days since its doors were shut, the gallery has reopened, and it looks a little different from before.

Finance ministers from the UK’s devolved administrations have been snubbed by the chancellor of the exchequer, following calls for more fiscal powers from the Treasury.