Turning heads

Exhibition of the week Turner & Constable: Rivals ...

Johannes Vermeer brightened his native Delft with luminous pictures of women caught in intimate moments, but the serenity of his work, of which he produced remarkably little, is at odds with a life mired in debt, as Carla Passino discovers

Spanning the 1920s to 1970s, Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape, at Firstsite in Colchester, examines the evolution of abstract art during periods of sweeping social and political

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells Carla Passino why he thinks we have read Vermeer wrong all along– and who the Girl with a Pearl Earring really is

The Affordable Art Fair’s autumn edition welcomed 20,000 visitors with collectors and newcomers alike showing a growing appetite. Continuing its mission to introduce new audiences to the joy of collec