The art spy

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

Lee Miller threw herself into life, dancing at Surrealist balls, taking fashion to Blitz-torn streets and dreaming up blue-spaghetti recipes, all the time intoxicating men and fighting inner demons, as Mary Miers reveals

Who Owns Beauty? Bénédicte Savoy (Polity, £25) ...

Danny Bird Your book opens with the story of a woman named Solitude on Guadaloupe. Why did you choose to start with her and what can she tell us about the wider history of resistance among enslaved pe

IT was with some reluctance that I visited the Society of Antiquaries with Miss Bruton, that day in 1941. Under normal circumstances, the Society would be a favoured destination for me, but I was awar

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers