A new study explores the portrait practice of Beale, the most famous of the early female professional painters in Britain ...

Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the ...

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...

Watford Observer local history columnist Lesley Dunlop looks back at the links between Corran School in Watford and the Moberly-Jourdain incident.

Paper, Color, Line” is on display through April 27 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, features over a ...

The Olivier Award-winning actress on making the jump from the West End to primetime TV in BBC One’s new period drama, Miss ...

Miss Sohee designer Sohee Park's creative philosophy revolves around the idea of accentuating the natural curves of the female body.

The Amy Sherald SFMOMA show is the artist's largest to date, featuring her Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor paintings.

While Istanbul shines with new blockbuster exhibitions like Ahmet Gunestekin’s “Lost Words,” at Feshane, or “The Story ...

Britain’s first black woman bishop tells her story for the first time in a new memoir.

The Georgian-era instalment of the comedy television programme Blackadder sees the eponymous Edmund Blackadder serving as ...

Whether we prefer Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, or Thomas Hardy, we must admit many of fiction's rockstars ...