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A Opinionated Guide to Women Painters
The artist who sang duets with Marie Antoinette while she painted her
High Colour: William Eggleston
Interior worlds: a Norwegian artist obsessed with the interplay of light and architecture
How Venice transformed Monet’s art
‘What we achieved is almost unimaginable’ - Second World War filmmakers and photographers tell all
Julia Margaret Cameron for World of Interiors
Did a magician help vanquish the Nazis in World War Two?
An Opinionated Guide To British Art
Roland Penrose and Lee Miller — the anatomy of their love affair
The art of the inventory
'A mad thing for a man to do': why the artist William Nicholson ran away from London
Live Wire
Inside artist Louise Bourgeois' New York home
How Rodin found beauty in deformity
When We Were Young
Revealed: the unsung heroes who excavated Tutankhamun's tomb
Move over, Mother: meet Whistler’s other woman
At the music hall with actor-turned-artist Walter Sickert
‘Mum fell over the side’: growing up in America’s most famous (and vertigo-inducing) home
David Bailey on Diana’s ‘terrible hair’, the Queen’s ‘beautiful skin’, and living with dementia
Rothko's children on growing up orphaned but in possession of an astonishing artistic legacy
So Dalí, what’s for dinner? How great artists can pep up your cooking
Meet the photo-obsessed Shah of Iran, who shared his artistic passion with his 84 wives
Richard Avedon: is this what power looks like?