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

It awarded Wiltshire's Athelstan Museum a £380,900 grant to help it buy Turner's painting of Malmesbury Abbey, which had been in private hands for the last 40 years. Joseph Mallord William Turner ...

A new exhibition is to examine how British artist JMW Turner unknowingly captured the permanent impact people were having on the environment in his paintings. A World of Care will see the ...

The painting, which was previously displayed at Chepstow Museum, will return in the summer. Joseph Mallord William Turner, who died in 1851, is considered by many to be Britain's greatest ...