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July 20, 2025
Kenwood’s General Manager Gives Update on Summer Events

It’s been a really exciting couple of months at Kenwood, with the opening of Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits. We’ve had some wonderful feedback on the exhibition, and we hope that through the work of John Singer Sargent, we have successfully shed light on the contributions the women once dubbed ‘dollar princesses’ made to politics, the arts and society, and have shared their stories with a wider audience. A huge thank you to all who have supported the exhibition including The Friends of the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, the American Friends of English Heritage, the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund and the London Historic Houses Museum Trust, the Blavatnik Family Foundation Rockefeller Capital Management, Gregory and Melissa Fleming, LK. Barnes, Mark King, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Sargent Circle and other generous supporters. If you have yet to see it, Heiress is running until October 5.

Arts & Culture
July 4, 2025
From Guest-Curated Displays to Unrealized Projects, the V&A Announces New Details on the David Bowie Centre – Opening at V&A

Today, the V&A announces its David Bowie Centre, opening 13 September 2025 at V&A East Storehouse, will feature an exclusive guest-curated display by multi-award-winning musician, producer, songwriter and David Bowie-collaborator, Nile Rodgers, and Brit Award-winning indie rock band, The Last Dinner Party. These intimate selections from Bowie's archive offer new perspectives on one of the most iconic creatives of all time and sit alongside a series of other mini curated displays and installations exploring Bowie’s creative legacy and lasting influence. V&A East Storehouse’s free to access David Bowie Centre will be the new home of David Bowie’s Archive, made possible thanks to the David Bowie Estate and a generous donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group.

Arts & Culture
June 24, 2025
Robert Harris Wins £10k Pleasure of Reading Prize 2025

Novelist Robert Harris has won Give a Book’s The Pleasure of Reading Prize for 2025, worth £10,000. The prize money is shared between the winning author and a charitable Give a Book project of the winner’s choice, often a prison, school or another project where reading for pleasure can "teach, inspire, and change lives". The Pleasure of Reading Prize is sponsored by Bloomsbury Publishing and supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

Arts & Culture
June 19, 2025
The Best Exhibitions and Events to Visit in June 2025

Discover inspiration and spark your creativity with The English Home's curated list of the top art exhibitions, antiques shows, and more currently happening in the UK. This month, the list highlights must-see exhibitions and events, including two supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation: English Heritage's landmark exhibition at Kenwood in Hampstead, titled Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits, and Dress Codes at Kensington Palace.

Arts & Culture
June 17, 2025
Get an Early Peek at the New Ken Burns Documentary About the American Revolution

Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, “The American Revolution,” doesn’t start airing for another five months. It debuts on PBS Nov. 16. Burns produced and directed the documentary with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. They’ve variously collaborated with Burns on several previous projects, including “Benjamin Franklin,” “The US and the Holocaust” (both 2022), and “The Vietnam War” (2017). Two snippets from the documentary are now available for viewing online. The first clip arrived in April, tied to the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The new one was released this week, for the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Arts & Culture
May 28, 2025
V&A East Storehouse is a Genuinely Radical New Museum

At the new V&A East Storehouse, storage takes center stage. This dynamic outpost brings the museum’s vast collections—250,000 objects, 350,000 books, and nearly 1,000 archives—into public view like never before. Far from the traditional museum experience, visitors can peer into active conservation labs, watch objects being prepared for display or loan, and even pre-order items from the archive for viewing. It’s a behind-the-scenes experience—by design. Opening soon within the Storehouse: the David Bowie Collection, a landmark acquisition made possible by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Warner Music Group.

Arts & Culture
May 27, 2025
Design Museum by Day, Dance Club by Night

Design Museum’s upcoming exhibition explores how London's Blitz nightclub shaped ‘80s club culture, and launched the careers of Boy George, milliner Stephen Jones and others. The Design Museum is celebrating all things Blitz and glamour with its upcoming exhibition, “Blitz: The Club That Shaped the 80s.” Celebrating how London’s Blitz nightclub influenced ‘80s club culture show will run from Sept. 20 to March 29. “It’s remarkable that so much of 1980s pop culture can be traced back to the Blitz scene. That the club night only ran for little over a year, but shaped a whole decade is really astonishing,” said Danielle Thom, the exhibition’s curator. The exhibition is supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

Arts & Culture
May 9, 2025
Snobbery and Sex Appeal: The Remarkable Lives of Sargent’s ‘Dollar Princesses’

Now, on the centenary of Sargent’s death, a fascinating subsection of his work is going on display at Kenwood House in London. Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits is the first exhibition to focus on his paintings and sketches of the wealthy young American women who crossed the Atlantic to marry into the British and European aristocracy, bearing dowries big enough to rescue crumbling ancestral homes and elevating their own family status in the process. Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits is supported by The Friends of the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, the American Friends of English Heritage, the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, the Blavatnik Family Foundation, Rockefeller Capital Management, Gregory and Melissa Fleming, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and other generous supporters.

Arts & Culture
May 7, 2025
BBC’s ‘Last Musician Of Auschwitz’ Lands Theatrical Release

Backed by The Zone of Interest funder Access, the doc, which was made by Two Rivers Media, follows Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, played and created music amid the terrors of the Holocaust. It reveals how despite living in the most brutal and dehumanizing of situations, prisoners were secretly composing music whilst in the camps. Co-EPs Emily Blavatnik and Danny Cohen added: “Preserving the memories, stories and truths of the Holocaust is critically important. It’s something that the Blavatnik Family and Access Industries are profoundly committed to. This documentary and its musical testimonies resonate deeply when experienced in a shared, collective setting, which is key to furthering holocaust remembrance.”

Arts & Culture
May 7, 2025
The National Gallery Room 34 to Be Named Blavatnik Family Foundation Room

Room 34 of the National Gallery will today (7 May 2025), be unveiled as the Blavatnik Family Foundation Room in recognition of its significant gift to NG200. Led by Sir Leonard Blavatnik, founder and chairman of Access Industries, the Blavatnik Family Foundation promotes innovation, discovery and creativity to benefit the whole of society. Through the Foundation, the Blavatnik family has contributed over $1 billion globally to advance science, education, arts and culture, and social justice. Sir Leonard Blavatnik, said: 'I’m delighted to support the National Gallery’s Bicentenary and this magnificent room that celebrates Britain’s artistic heritage.'

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