Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

Zadie Smith was born in 1975 in the UK to a Jamaican mother and a British father, and grew up in the ethnically multi-shaded ...

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The long hours in uncomfortable positions to which Freud famously subjected his sitters were no problem for Bowery. After all, he thought nothing of spending an evening in platform heels, his head ...

It is hoped Benton End will be back open to the public in summer next year [Garden Museum] The former home and gardens of two ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2001, wanted posters were fly-posted on walls all over Berlin. Below the large, Wild West-style “WANTED” ...

In a new essay collection, the novelist and critic offers her observations on artists, technology and a vanishing public commons.

Britain steps into 2026 with fresh energy, bringing stories to life in exciting new ways. History meets high- tech, castles ...

The British Council, Britain’s flagship for cultural diplomacy, is in trouble. Its chief executive, Scott McDonald, told MPs last week that the organisation is “in real financial peril” and is now ...

The Two Roberts, Robert MacBryde (1913-66) and Robert Colquhoun (1914-62), are figures of a lost British bohemia. Both born ...

The model, 51, proved she's still got it as she starred in a campaign for Kismet by Milka, the fine jewellery and premium piercing brand. For the shoot she showed off her youthful and toned figure in ...