Using a painting to envisage a room–or record it for posterity–provides an exciting alternative to digital technology, says Arabella Youens

I’ve wandered into an oil painting. In front of me is a millpond with a cream-coloured cottage at its edge and a froth of English greenery on its banks. The scene is unmistakable. Where my mind’s eye

New paints and papers, selected by Amelia Thorpe

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Over six decades, the American financier and businessman T Kimball Brooker assembled one of the finest rare book libraries ever to come to auction. Dubbed ‘Bibliotheca Brookeriana’, it comprised over

Together with ancient armour, Egyptian cats and illuminated manuscripts, this year’s Frieze Masters sees a colourful work by an even more colourful character, a Nigerian prince who set out to make ‘contemporary Yoruba traditional art’