Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

RARE PHOTOS: The wallace collection | Rare Historical Photos

Churchill on canvas: London exhibition for rarely seen paintings by Britain's wartime leader

Winston Churchill place in history is secured by his role as Britain's wartime leader but his private and prolific passion for painting is less known. Now, a new exhibition at London's Wallace Collection aims to explore his life as an artist.

Euronews

A fashion writer’s guide to staying, shopping and dining in London’s most stylish village

Having fallen for the charms of Marylebone over the past few years, Daisy Lester reveals how to spend 24 hours in the neighbourhood

The Independent UK

John Wallace obituary

Virtuoso trumpeter and founder of the Wallace Collection brass ensemble who performed alongside Kiri Te Kanawa at the 1981 royal wedding

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Who was Caravaggio’s black-winged god of love? What this masterpiece reveals about the rogue genius

In three thrilling works by Caravaggio, the same boy’s face crops up. As one – the astonishing Victorious Cupid – arrives in Britain, we ask: who was this anarchic model and muse?

The Guardian - UK

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Jon Rafman's strange and beautiful Google Street View archive, the final season of Stranger Things, and more cosy crime solving in Zootopia 2. Here's what to look out for this week.

Euronews

Derek Purnell obituary

Dancer and later chief executive of Birmingham Royal Ballet who took leading roles at the Wallace Collection and then Strawberry Hill House in London

The Guardian - UK

Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A utopia of massive tapestries, killer clown slashers, and the sexy exploits of the world's first celebrity chef — here's what to look out for this week.

Euronews

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

March design news: Maurzio Cattelan goes Greek, art teapots and house paint that changes colour

Exhibitions at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, a guide to green wood carving and funeral urns by Alessi

The Guardian - UK

Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur review – pomposity puncturing gets lost in personae

Artworks ‘by’ Perry’s new alter ego – an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith – sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more straightforward

The Guardian - UK

How to have a cultural Mother’s Day: from Tom Hiddleston to Mamma Mia

The capital is bursting at the seams with things to do this March

Evening Standard

Grayson Perry: ‘Of course I love the super-rich – they buy my work!’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: On the eve of a new exhibition, the artist talks to Geordie Greig about his alter ego ‘Claire’, surviving emotional abuse and why when he looks at exquisite Sèvres china, he thinks ‘Eastbourne charity shop’

The Independent UK

Dame Rosalind Savill obituary

Director of the Wallace Collection museum in London from 1992 to 2011 and a specialist on 18th-century Sèvres porcelain

The Guardian - UK

Art historian and museum curator Dame Rosalind Savill dies age 73

The former director of London’s Wallace Collection died on Friday following a short illness.

Evening Standard

Keeping Time review – ravishing timepieces tell you to make love, be happy and face down the reaper

In a scintillating show, André-Charles Boulle’s sumptuous clocks invite you into an extravagant world of sensuality and dreams

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King at the Wallace Collection review – a glorious show about the Lion of Punjab

Military prowess takes centre stage at this exhibition, which explores the splendor and violence of the Lion of Punjab’s reign

Evening Standard

Frans Hals at the National Gallery review: about time this master was brought back into the spotlight

He was once thought of as among the greatest of Dutch painters, and this exhibition proves his worth

The Guardian - UK

Frans Hals review – boring, lifeless portraits with flamboyant facial hair

Comprehensive collection of the 17th-century painter’s work aims to place him alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, but his technically brilliant paintings are weirdly soulless

Evening Standard

Turner and Bonington at The Wallace Collection review: A small gem of an exhibition

An opportunity to see another aspect to Richard Parkes Bonington, a painter who died too young. As for Turner, can you ever have enough?

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard

Brooklyn artist Will St. John: ‘If you go to art school, you’re paying for connections’

Will St. John has adapted a centuries-old style of painting to depict the modern-day stars of New York. Isobel Van Dyke meets him on the eve of his debut London show

The Week

Book now: 20 must-see exhibitions in the UK

The largest exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s work in decades is on show at Tate Britain along with paintings by his wife, Elizabeth Siddal. Fans of pre-Raphaelite art will be thrilled with “The Rossettis”, which features splendid loans alongside much-loved paintings from our national collections. Until 24 September 2023, Tate…

The Guardian - UK

Dealers accused of tricks that turn ordinary desks into £1m antiques

Buyers are being warned about the over-restoring or upgrading of furniture to make it appear more valuable

Wallpaper

Portraits of dogs: new Wallace Collection show is pooch perfect

‘Portraits of Dogs from Gainsborough to Hockney’ at the Wallace Collection (until 15 October) offers paws for thought on the human devotion to dogs throughout the centuries

The Guardian - UK

Portraits of Dogs review – pass the pooper-scooper, this one’s a stinker

This show of canine portraiture is so trite and desperate to please, it ends up insulting animals and audience alike

Evening Standard

Portraits of Dogs at the Wallace Collection review: canine culture will bow wow all doggie lovers

This exhibition of art featuring man’s best friend spans centuries, from a second century sculpture to David Hockney and Lucian Freud

Evening Standard

Culture in London to book for spring 2023: from Portraits of Dogs to Fast X and A Little Life

Spring has sprung and with it comes a new raft of fantastic culture in London. Here’s our essential guide of what to do and see this season

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

National Galleries of Scotland

50 stories

Gagosian

30 stories

Birmingham Royal Ballet

28 stories

The Wallace Collection

26 stories

Frameless

19 stories

Dulwich Picture Gallery

18 stories

Laing Art Gallery

16 stories

The Victoria and Albert Museum

16 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.