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The Tate's new William Blake exhibition looks at the artist's achievements — but also at his disastrous 1809 exhibition, the show which tried and failed to win him a great reputation as a painter. Andrew Loukes explains more.
The retiring banker Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild, on continuing his family’s tradition of artistic innovation.
From the Great Exhibition to the London Design Festival, Britain has a long tradition of celebrating creativity, says Clive Aslet.
Huon Mallalieu welcomes the opportunity to see a significant body of wartime paintings alongside other works by Munnings in his former home.
As Autumn arrives, all manner of unpleasant jobs begin to crop up. Jobs which can be made much easier with fancy, shiny new tools like these.
'My parents bought it in one of the large, family-owned department stores (soon to be destroyed by terrorist bombs) and I remember us carrying it home on the bus.'
Spectacular butterfly specimens from across the world are being given a luxurious afterlife as jewellery boxes, humidors and watches. Nick Hammond reports.
The architect Lachie Stewart chooses a Piero della Francesca masterpiece from the 15th century.
Treasured by the Victorians in remembrance of their lost loved ones, hair jewellery is beautiful, intricate and intriguing, as Charlotte Cory discovers in a visit to the British Museum.
Alexandra Fraser rounds up the last few things you absolutely don't need this summer, as we reluctantly turn towards autumn jackets, broken brollies and 'do you have any tables inside?'.
Making your living off your garden is a dream for many of us — but it needn't be a dream, as Anna Tyzack found when she spoke to some people who are already doing it.
Modern digital technology is transforming our understanding of the context and meaning of historic works of art. Emma Crichton-Miller investigates.
It's the weekend we've all been waiting for since Christmas. In three short days, everyone in the UK (except the parents of young children, God bless you) will wake up at 7am, glance at their phone clocks and peacefully drift back into their downy pillows with large smiles on their faces. It's here, it's really here – the August bank holiday.
We take a look at three of Britain's most successful sculpture parks.
