This article was first published by the V&A. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, cultural institutions around the world have become more aware of the long-standing attempts at erasure and appr...

The Frame Blog now has a new section (accessible, like the Archives, Contributors, etc., from the header, above), which contains drawings and designs for frames, organized by nationality within century. These are taken mainly from the drawings departments of large museums and similar institutions; occasionally from commercial galleries and auction houses; and each drawing is linked back to its source. As well as designs for altarpieces and moveable frames, the subjects include wall elevations containing frames, some designs for engravings of frames or book frontispieces and illustrations where these seem significant, and drawings of details of ornaments or profiles.

DRAWINGS and DESIGNS for FRAMES This section of The Frame Blog is intended to collect together from various sources – museums and elsewhere – as many as possible designs and drawings of…

A sale to be held by Sotheby's, London, on 17 & 18 September 2025 Pauline Karpidas assembled an extraordinary collection of 20th-21st century paintings, sculpture and furniture, some of it commissioned directly from the artists or their agents. The house she shared with her husband, until his death, was an organized riot of pictures, pattern and colour, where no object seemed commonplace or mundane, and every individually extravagant piece fell into obedient relationship with the rest.

Following the successful virtual conference organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario in September 2024, with its fascinating and wide-ranging collection of papers, it is very satisfying to be able t…