This wonderful Cornish workshop and museum is dedicated to the legacy of studio pottery trailblazer Bernard Leach
ARTS, NEWS AND FEATURES
20 Dec 2022
Snow laden branches; a frozen lake in twilight; gleeful skaters on the ice… winter paintings are one of the joys of art history. They are also one of the most challenging genres to represent – with snow being difficult to capture convincingly. Our expert, Stella Grace Lyons, examines how artists have captured our frostiest season
20 Dec 2022
Ciaran Sneddon selects five gold rings in the form of art – from saintly altar decorations to the most distant artwork ever created
16 Dec 2022
The one-time Suffolk home of the great 18th-century artist Thomas Gainsborough has been the subject of a £10m revival project. Caroline Wheater was there at its reopening
9 Dec 2022
Have you started Christmas shopping? Then pause a moment to recall the glamour of department stores of the past. Tessa Boase has been rifling through archives of such sites for her new book; here are just eight of the fun facts she’s uncovered
7 Dec 2022
This special site is dedicated to the life and work of George Frederic Watts, one of the great painters of the Victorian age, and his brilliant wife Mary, an artist, designer and philanthropist
2 Dec 2022
Raw, tender, unflinching – the images made by Vivian Maier, a street photographer whose work lay hidden for years, can’t fail to move. Sue Herdman provides a snapshot of her story