‘i am for shakespeare’

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

Richmond Palace, 22 March 1603. Elizabeth I – the self-proclaimed Virgin Queen who had ruled England for 44 years, seeing off the Armada, healing religious divisions and creating a court so magnificen

Riots and raccoons, haves and have-nots, Spanish and Swahili: Shakespeare in Central Park