A UK university's debating society apologized after one of its speakers impersonated Hitler. Speaker Andrew Graham-Dixon's impression was part of a debate about the existence of good taste. He later ...

Here’s a pearl of wisdom. After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painting.

The Cambridge Union at Cambridge University made one art historian persona non grata at the debate group’s gatherings after he offended guests by briefly impersonating Adolf Hitler. Andrew ...

John Cleese has withdrawn from a talk at Cambridge University because the union’s president banned another speaker, the art historian and television presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon, for “impersonating” ...

Nowadays the word ‘iconic’ is vastly overused. But there is no doubt that one painting, Girl With A Pearl Earring by the great Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, has indeed become an icon. Tracy Chevalier ...

This week, a new biography of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer was welcomed by critics while new titles in historical fiction and folk horror, as well as a “devastating” memoir, also received acclaim.

On 16 May 1696, 21 paintings by “the late J. Vermeer of Delft” appeared at auction in Amsterdam. Described as “being the best he ever made”, the collection, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon in this ...