Art history unlocked

We often feel we don’t have the time and headspace to be original or inventive, but art historian and author Katy Hessel says everyone can bring more creativity to their everyday. Here, she tells us how

Some of my earliest and fondest memories are of drawing. I constantly drew monsters, video game characters and comic book heroes. I kept this up through my late teens until it dawned on me that art wa

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Kerry James Marshall, ‘poised between narrative and allegory’

→ Last Sunday I did a talk at the Anteros Arts Foundation, an art gallery and charity in Norwich. It was a fundraiser for Anteros, as I have had a studio there and love what they do. The story I offer