John William Waterhouse often featured figures from literature or Greek mythology... but what dark secrets is his mermaid ...

Dogs, cats, goats, and ocelots. Animals have long served as muses and companions to artists and creatives. Here are our five ...

Descriptive zoopraxography; or, the science of animal locomotion made popular : with selected outline tracings reduced from some of the illustrations of "Animal Locomotion" an electro-photographic ...

Held every year since 1769, the Summer Exhibition displays works in a variety of mediums and genres by emerging and established artists. The Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest open submission ...

The Analysis Of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas Of Taste. - By William Hogarth. - [Epigraph] - A New Edition. - - London:: [1772] ...

F.W. Farrer, 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Clara Richmond ...

Many of Michaelina Wautier's works were posthumously attributed to men over the centuries. But how do you spot a Wautier ...

See inside Picasso and Paper Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for Guernica to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings ...

As we unite more than 50 of Lucian Freud’s self-portraits for the first time ever, here’s a handy guide to get to know the man whose painted, printed and drawn figure is in our galleries this autumn.

Originally released in cinemas, this 'Exhibition on Screen' film takes us back to two of our landmark exhibitions by the iconic British artist, David Hockney RA. Sit back and enjoy, as we revisit 2012 ...

Ai Weiwei has worked in everything from paint to readymades. As our landmark exhibition examines work from 1993 up to the present day, we take a look at some of the key works to know from across Ai's ...

Six tonnes of steel mesh, a gallery flooded with seawater, a body you could walk through and an experience like no other. Relive our 2019 Antony Gormley exhibition with behind-the-scenes videos, ...