December 2012

Happy New Year!

Welcome to Cassone 2013.

In May we will be two years old, and ahead of us is a year in which we will feature all kinds of beautiful, stimulating and interesting art. 2012 was a highly successful year for British art exhibitions, with Tate Modern alone attracting a record 5.3 million visitors. This is the highest ever figure for a calendar year in its history, and the figure was up 9.5% on the previous year. Tate Britain also had a good year with 1.53 million visitors coming through its doors in 2012, a 4.3% increase on the figure for the same period in 2011. Of course, the London Festival 2012, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad, contributed to this success, but the public voted with its feet and went to see exhibitions such as ‘ Damien Hirst ’, ‘ Edvard Munch ’, and ‘T he Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde ’.

So what will 2013 be giving us? A small...

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