The historian and presenter on his new book about 12,000 years of British art, BBC philistinism and Banksy’s ‘money-making machine’.

The exhibition at Turner's House, the painter's former retreat in Twickenham, south-west London, opens on 6 July. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775 and became what many ...

Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner, one of the most widely admired and influential British artists of all time. To celebrate, a selection of ...