Museums in the UK are on high alert as protesters from the group Just Stop Oil target famous paintings, including a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" and John Constable's "The ...

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 ...

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 ...