Since May this year, the aurora borealis (northern lights), has at times been visible further south than usual over Britain, ...

A conversation with the art historian Claire Bishop about technology's influence on museums and galleries, and her recent book Disordered Attention.

Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions ...

James Macpherson’s controversial Ossian poems caused a huge stir after they were published in the late 18th century.

The US and India had signed a Cultural Property Agreement in July to "enhance cooperation to protect cultural heritage" ...

Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The V&A Museum is a treasure trove of art and design. Here’s ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

The original Barcombe surrounds pretty St Mary’s Church, Barcombe Cross is where villagers fled to escape the Black Death and ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Published 200 years ago, ‘The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner’ depicts a sibling rivalry in formally ...