If only this exhibition about the Duke of Wellington and his lady friends wasn’t so po-faced
The Duke of Wellington, born Arthur Wellesley in 1769, war-hero of Waterloo and adept politician was also well known as a ladies’ man. Cartoons from the period…
Who needs a thesis when your paintings are as beautiful as David Hockney’s?
This exhibition can be enjoyed in one of two ways: the official and the unofficial. Its subject is David Hockney’s take on how artists go about…
The Crivelli code: subtle jokes hidden in the paintings of a Renaissance master
Trompe l’oeil and manipulations of pictorial space are evident throughout the history of Renaissance art – for example, the extraordinary illusionism in Mantegna’s Camera degli Sposi, 1474…
Faceless painting worth £750k ruined after ‘bored’ security guard draws eyes on it
“The person who drew the eyes on the figures in the painting of Anna Leporskaya has been identified: This is an employee of a private firm that…
‘Women and children first’ onto the Titanic lifeboats was a myth, historian claims
“They survived because first officer William Murdoch, who evacuated that side, didn’t prevent them from getting in. “On the port side, second officer Charles Lightoller had the…
America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery, review: a dishonest show full of Left-wing clichés
Yet it’s all so manipulative. The point is to depict national ennui, fair enough, but one photographer even affects to capture the nano-second at a homecoming parade…
What Vera Lynn was really like behind closed doors
Above: one of Lynn’s sketchbooks from the 1930s. She was taught by Arthur Segal, a Romanian artist who fled Nazi Germany. His school in north London encouraged…