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Actor, writer and singer Tayo Aluko is inspired by Paul Robeson and Harry Belafonte

The premise for this new exhibition is a “weird” one indeed, said Laura Freeman in The Times. On the face of it, the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) have little in common: he was a cosmopolitan modernist, she a visionary mystic; he…

About 50 years ago an unknown artist entered a portrait of the artist Russell Drysdale in the Archibald Prize. They had painted the artist as a craggy head, emerging from the landscape. The gallery trustees, who knew Drysdale well, loved it – but it was never hung. In their collective…

A Government-funded scheme is offering public authorities the chance to claim a free portrait of the King ahead of his coronation in May.

The set is based on newly-commissioned wood engravings by artist Andrew Davidson.

A house in Stoke-on-Trent was visited by the BBC's Home Under the Hammer as it went up for auction unchanged from the Victorian era by late local artist Tim Chitty

Police found the 44 coins, which are valued at approximately £766,000, at properties in County Durham and Lancashire

A new exhibition showing the works of Touko Laaksonen, better known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, adds a personal touch to the late Finnish artist whose homoerotic drawings of muscular men gained a following in the gay community from the 1950s

A baroque Warsaw mansion hosting a museum dedicated to Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin reopens this week after months of renovations spurred by the pandemic