Untitled artwork by chris bird

Iris Murdoch’s unseen poetry, transcribed for the first time

Music was an all-consuming escape. Now, every song he writes is a love song At 16, I was just starting to take writing seriously. I became obsessed with lyricism and writing lines and my heroes were a

From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t

Pierre d’Alancaisez on Art COURTESY OF CHENG-LAN ART ...

Caricatured as a suburban grouch, Philip Larkin was, in fact, an attentive and astute chronicler of Nature. On the 40th anniversary of the poet’s death, Richard Barnett celebrates his lifelong love of the English countryside

Rufus Bird says rumours of a market decline are overstated