The first exhibition in decades to celebrate the life and work of Hampstead-based painter Donald Towner opens at the nearby Burgh House this month. Spanning the interwar and postwar years, Amongst the

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

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I have always wanted to live in a period property, and the quirkiness of this house is so appealing to me,’ says artist Mink Yip of her Worcestershire home. ‘It’s actually made up of three old propert

In this 1800s brownstone, designer Nicole Hirsch was able to introduce modern design without losing the traditional bones of the property

John Piper was a modernist who rejected Modernism, a versatile artist who defied categories, but one who remained true to the spirit and detail of the places he painted