Vincent van gogh poets and lovers

Vincent van Gogh made sunflowers his personal motifs, but, when he looked to experiment with colour, a full florist’s roster of irises, roses, poppies, poured out of his brush, as Michael Prodger discovers

From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t

Cezanne 25 at Aix-en-Provence

Caricatured as a suburban grouch, Philip Larkin was, in fact, an attentive and astute chronicler of Nature. On the 40th anniversary of the poet’s death, Richard Barnett celebrates his lifelong love of the English countryside

Works by certain artists often become symbolic of a particular era. This is an angle which has proved very popular with visitors to London’s National Gallery in recent years and, this month, welcomes

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time