Buckingham Palace Shocks with Salon-Style Hang

By Polly WatsonJuly 10, 2026

Buckingham Palace’s Picture Gallery on July 9 unveiled a surprising new rehang of the palace’s collection that nearly doubles the number of works on view, from 63 to 120. The salon-style hang echoes those recently presented at the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain and harks back to a style popularized at the eighteenth-century Paris […]

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Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in England for First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years

The Bayeux Tapestry, a massive, 11th century masterwork that depicts the events surrounding the Duke of Normandy’s conquest of England, has returned to England for the first time in nearly one thousand years. The priceless historical treasure, which will be on display in the British Museum’s Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery from September 10 until July of 2027, was transported […]

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Buckingham Palace Shocks with Salon-Style Hang

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