British women artists:from suffrage to the sixties

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

It is almost unbelievable that female-identifying artists, despite our progressively enlightened times, represent just seven-per-cent of art in the collections of the top public museums. For example,

It is almost unbelievable that female-identifying artists, despite our progressively enlightened times, represent just seven-per-cent of art in the collections of the top public museums. For example,

Exhibition of the week Seeing Each Other: Portraits ...

As British contemporary art beats all odds to remain a cauldron of inventiveness and passion, Carla Passino discovers which artists aged 40 or under are on the radar of forward-looking museum directors and curators

Exhibition of the week Ancient India: living traditions ...