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The V&A and Burberry announce landmark Fashion Gallery makeoverThe V&A is renovating one of its largest and most-visited spaces — with support from British fashion house Burberry.
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What lies beneath: The weird and wonderful things lurking in Britain's museum basementsFrom radioactive rocks to great white sharks, and a dolphin called Boris, the things stored in Britain's museum basements make the mind boggle — and now plans are afoot to improve visitor access.
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Seeing you seeing me: How British artists portrayed each other in the 20th and 21st centuriesThe 'Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists' exhibitions comprises paintings, prints, drawings, photography, sculpture and installation spanning 125 years.
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'This is the funnest exhibition London has seen in recent memory': Grayson Perry’s new show at the Wallace Collection explores the delusions of a fictitious woman'Delusions of Grandeur' at the Wallace Collection coincides with a selling exhibition of photography.
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Art, architecture and plastic bricks at Lego House: 'It's as if the National Gallery set up easels and paints next to the masterpieces and invited you try your hand at creating a Van Gogh'The rural Danish town where Lego was created is dominated by the iconic toy — and at Lego House, it has a fittingly joyful site of pilgrimage. Toby Keel paid a visit.
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Victor Hugo, France's greatest novelist, was also a talented artist — and now his 'rarely seen' illustrations are on display at the RAVictor Hugo dismissed his drawings as mere things made in the margins of his manuscripts Now, a Royal Academy exhibition reveals how powerfully they engage the imagination.
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Philip Treacy, Gucci and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, take centre stage at Chatsworth's latest floral-inspired exhibition'The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth’ traverses eras and art forms, raising questions about the environment.
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From party island to arty island, Princess Margaret's private Mustique haunt announces burgeoning arts programmeArt Basil is the new Art Basel.
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'Designer, maker, influencer': How Glyndebourne plans to honour Oliver Messel's legacy this summerA century on from his professional debut, Glyndebourne is to stage an exhibition celebrating the visionary 20th century stage designer.
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A new National Gallery exhibition shines a light on Siena’s brief, but dazzling golden ageIn the space of 100 years, Siena's artists redefined painting as an art form and laid the foundations for Renaissance.
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Hastings Contemporary extols life above and below the waves with two new exhibitionsThe threat to fishing communities and the mysteries of life below the waves are explained in two new exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary, East Sussex.
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‘Seeing all these pictures at the same time is a rare privilege’: ‘Goya to Impressionism’ opens at The CourtauldThe Courtauld’s new exhibition marks the first time that a significant portion of one of Switzerland’s most important art collections has been shown in one go, outside of the country.
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In full bloom: 'Flowers: Flora in art and culture' opens at the Saatchi GalleryFrom 100,000 dried flowers to a contemporary interpretation of Van Gogh’s 'Sunflowers', the Saatchi Gallery's new 'Flowers' exhibition is the perfect spring antidote to long winter days.
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The £40 car boot painting that might just be a long-lost Van Gogh worth more than £10 millionIt's the things dreams are made of: you pick up an innocuous painting at a car boot sale only to discover that it might be a previously unknown piece by one of the most influential figures in art worth millions. This time round though the dream is a reality because experts believe they've just verified a long-lost Van Gogh masterpiece. So, how does the evidence stack up, asks Rosie Paterson?
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Country Life's top 10 arts stories of 2024From the artist killed on his first day in the war to a masterpiece once sold for £30, these were our most popular arts stories of 2024.
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Mushroom gin, Lego houses, and dull men and women, with James MayThat bloke off Top Gear joins the Country Life Podcast to talk about making his own gin, how to run a pub, why dull men and women are anything but and why he hates the North Pole and suitcases with wheels.
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The Christmas wreath-maker: 'They sell quicker than we can make them'All this week we're running a series on the people who make Christmas in the country what it is. Today, Paula Lester meets wreath maker Ellie Taylor.
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'I don't understand why we have gone backwards': Historic country houses take stock after the budget50 years on from the landmark exhibition at the V&A, the country house is once again facing huge pressures. Lucy Denton speaks to owners and organisations about what the future might hold.
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Eyes wide shut: The art of sleepingSleep takes many shapes in art, whether sensual or drunken, deathly or full of nightmares, but it is rarely peaceful. Even slumbering babies can convey anxiety, discovers Claudia Pritchard.
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The happiest places to live in Britain, including the gorgeous town that's 'like living in a Constable painting'This riverside spot has topped Rightmove’s annual ranking for the first time, taking the crown from Richmond upon Thames. Here’s why.
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The grand master 'paintings' that are actually the most exquisite floral photographs you'll ever seeHarald Altmaier’s photographs of floral tableaux, as colossal in effort as in scale, recall 17th-century Dutch still lifes, but the inspiration behind them is far wider, as Carla Passino finds.
