Happy birthday to a national treasure!

When I read the itinerary for a recent trip to Texas, my heart sank when I realised that an entire afternoon was scheduled in the Kimbell Art Museum, in Fort Worth. I’m no art connoisseur. In fact, it

The Yellow Boy by Joshua Reynolds saw multiple peregrinations, passing even through (Romanian) royal hands for a time, before returning to London in 1981. It now headlines a selling exhibition of magnificent 18th to 20th-century works

From Raphael and the mysterious Fornarina to Jan Steen with his flirtatious Margriet and Suzanne Valadon, who broke many hearts until she lost hers to a much younger man, Nick Trend explores five romances that made art history

Rufus Bird considers whether the market is up or down

WE’RE the only museum in the UK dedicated to stained glass,” the Stained Glass Museum’s deputy curator Emily Allen explains. “So often when we see stained glass in churches or civic buildings, we are

For her final column, Willow Kemp discusses the power of murals to weave storytelling into a room