art

Life-size mannequins, dolls and over 180 remarkable artworks from collections across the world will be going on display in Cambridge today (14...

The story of how ‘one of the last villages in London’ was saved from demolition to make way for the British Library is the subject of new research...

Art historian Dr Meredith Hale reveals that a 17th-century screen, commissioned by the Viceroy of Mexico for a palace designed to impress visitors...

During the First World War artists were widely believed to be spies and, around much of the country, painting became illegal. Research by art...

An exhibition of contemporary textile art by Deanna Tyson has opened at the Alison Richard Building in response to the unique materials held there...

In a talk on Monday (20 May 2013) Dr Simon Nightingale will explore how painterly interpretations of the countryside were embedded into the...

As voyages of exploration opened up the world from the 15th century onwards, European culture delighted in encounters with exotic items. Dr José...

Eminent art historian and former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Philippe de Montebello will this week give two lectures that explore the...