Blenheim Palace
Country house in Oxfordshire
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| March 18 2025 | At Oxford Crown Court, one man was found guilty of planning the toilet theft burglary, another was convicted of conspiring to sell the gold, and a third was cleared of the charge. |
| April 2024 | One of the toilet theft suspects pleaded guilty at Oxford Crown Court. |
| March 2024 | Blenheim Palace was announced as the venue for the 4th summit of the European Political Community, scheduled for 18 July 2024. |
| January 2024 | Blenheim Art Foundation announced their ninth contemporary art exhibition featuring new works by Iraqi artist Mohammed Sami, coinciding with the foundation's 10-year anniversary at Blenheim Palace. |
| August 2021 | Continuation of Tino Sehgal's groundbreaking exhibition at Blenheim, which was the eighth exhibition in the Foundation's contemporary programme and the first of its kind at a British stately home, focusing on live artworks that challenged visitor interactions. |
| July 2021 | Blenheim Art Foundation hosted a major solo exhibition by Tino Sehgal, marking the first exhibition designed specifically for Blenheim Park & Gardens. The exhibition featured a complex, roaming choreography involving over 50 local participants, taking place entirely outdoors across the palace grounds. |
| September 17 2020 | Blenheim Art Foundation opened a major solo exhibition by Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace, featuring over thirty new site-specific artworks that critically and sentimentally explore British heritage, traditional painting genres, and the Spencer-Churchill family's art collection. |
| January 3 2020 | Conclusion of Cecily Brown's exhibition at Blenheim Palace, which included her largest painting to date, 'The Triumph of Death' (2019), and featured series focused on hunting scenes and battle paintings that referenced the Palace's military history. |
| 2019 | Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Jenny Holzer's display earned the Global Fine Art Awards' prize for 'Best Public Exhibition'. |
| October 27 2019 | Conclusion of Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition 'Victory is Not an Option' at Blenheim Art Foundation, which featured works displayed in unique interaction with the Palace's historical setting. |
| September 2019 | A robbery occurred at Blenheim Palace during Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition, with thieves stealing an 18-carat golden toilet valued at £4.8 million. |
| September 12 2019 | Blenheim Art Foundation launched 'Victory is Not an Option', Maurizio Cattelan's first major solo exhibition in the UK in twenty years, featuring new and iconic works displayed throughout Blenheim Palace. |
| 2018 | The 'SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace' exhibition was recognized as 'Best Public Exhibition' at the Global Fine Art Awards (GFAA) gala in New York City. |
| October 7 2018 | Conclusion of the Yves Klein exhibition at Blenheim Palace, which showcased the artist's pioneering work in conceptual art, minimalism, and performance art across the palace's historic spaces. |
| July 18 2018 | Yves Klein exhibition began at Blenheim Palace, coinciding with what would have been the artist's 90th birthday year. The exhibition explored Klein's artistic concepts of beauty, sensibility, and the sublime, featuring over 50 artworks including Monochrome Paintings, Anthropometry series, Fire Paintings, Sponge Sculptures, and Blue Venus sculptures. |
| December 31 2017 | Conclusion of Jenny Holzer's exhibition at Blenheim Palace, which included a virtual reality app OF WAR and artworks drawing from veterans' testimonies and experiences of conflict. |
| September 28 2017 | Jenny Holzer launched her solo exhibition 'SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace', featuring over fifty works exploring themes of modern conflict, history, and memory, with site-specific installations including a twelve-night light projection display ON WAR on the Palace facade. |
| 2016 | Michelangelo Pistoletto exhibition held at Blenheim Palace, and the Foundation won Hudson's UK Heritage Award for Best Innovator. |
| 2015 | Art exhibition by Lawrence Weiner at Blenheim Palace as part of the Foundation's contemporary art programme. |
| October 16 2014 | Charles James Spencer-Churchill succeeded as the 12th Duke of Marlborough upon his father's death. |
| October 1 2014 | Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill founded the Blenheim Art Foundation (BAF), launching with the UK's largest exhibition by Ai Weiwei. |
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