The 47th president, in high dudgeon over his portrait, is in the best of company, starting with Churchill.

With work from 1875 to 1925 alongside medieval works, this exhibition considers how modern Nordic and northern European artists such as Käthe Kollwitz and Edvard Munch were influenced by the gothic ...

The “Verso” exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel shows paintings from the 14th to 18th centuries, all from the museum’s collection. What makes it special is that it also takes a look at the reverse ...

Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991' in Vienna sheds light upon 48 women artists who engaged critically with computation ...

With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

Twenty-five years ago I published a book about Philip Clairmont, one of Fomison’s closest friends, which also lacked artworks and contained too many photographs. For different reasons, I too did not ...

The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...

The House of Lords, judicial appointments and… goats cheese? Carolyn Kirby, former president of the Law Society, reflects on the highlights and challenges of her term in the role.

Portraits by Holbein, Jan van Eyck ... similar to the effect induced by the Mona Lisa and many other Renaissance paintings, in which the painting appears to be staring at one regardless of ...