Museum news in Britain

Magazine Antiques, June, 2001 by Miriam Kramer

Three developments merit noting this month. The first is the opening on June 20 of a gallery of early twentieth-century art in the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University. The museum has extensive holdings of works by Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Moore, Epstein, and Frink that can now be shown together in the first new gallery devoted to European art to be created at the Ashmolean in sixty years.

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At the end of January, Andrew Greg, formerly the curator of the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle, started a one-year appointment as project director of the National Inventory of European Paintings 1200-1900 in public collections in England and Wales. The inventory is being funded by a grant from the Martin Davies Fund, named for a director of the National Gallery in London who left his estate to the museum.

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On May 1 Mark Jones began his tenure as the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, succeeding Alan Borg. Jones was appointed the director of the National Museums of Scotland in 1992 and before that worked primarily at the British Museum in London, where he became keeper of coins and medals. He is president of the British Art Medal Society.