As Art Collections & Learning Curator at Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service, Emma has curated an extraordinary range of exhibitions spanning centuries, disciplines, and audiences. From John Constable to Rodin’s
Exhibition of the weekIn Bloom: How Plants Changed Our WorldLovely flower paintings to herald the spring, but all is not what it seems in this survey of how science, trade
Contemporary art is heading somewhere unexpected in 2026: the dancefloor.A new cultural programme from The Night League (TNL) and W1 Curates is bringing museum-level contemporary art into nightlife venues across
Earlier this month, the Belgian art historian Michel Draguet published to much fanfare a 600-page report on what he contends is a newly discovered painting by Michelangelo. Draguet has entitled the controversial work the Spirituali Pietà and dated it
The complex relationship between mother and child is no easy thing to capture on canvas. For Mother’s Day, we asked five experts to share their favourite painting of a mother
Heading up the Triumph of Art parade organised by the artist Jeremy Deller to celebrate the National Gallery’s 250th birthday last summer was a giant inflatable sculpture of a reclining
LONDON CALLING: David Hockney is on a tear. Following successful shows at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and Annely Juda Fine Art in London, the artist is staging his first
An artist was inspired to produce a painting of die-hard Pompey fan John Westwood who epitomises the saying “never judge a book by its cover”.Sheryl Elaine Pape’s painting of John
After misfiring for a couple of years, the gleaming machine that is the top end of the international art market has once again revved back into life. The upgraded 2026
Otherwise, though, the prevailing impression is of nature’s unhurried, inexorable rhythms, as we move from bare-branched trees, represented in midwinter, to the flaring blossom of spring, early summer’s great, shaggy