The UK design museums most worth visiting are the Design Museum in Kensington, the V&A’s family of sites (South Kensington, the two V&A East buildings…
Azzurra Rinaldi on fashion's tattoo motifs, from Miyake to McQueen, and why a second skin is not a first skin.
Almost every professional dance institution in Britain traces back, directly or by inheritance, to two immigrant women. One was the Irish-born Ninette de Valois, whose…
The Victoria and Albert Museum began not as a temple of art for art’s sake but as a government instrument to improve British manufacturing after…
Iranian painter Nafiseh Mehmandoust on I Came by Metro: transit interiors, Guernica ceiling lamps, and painting the repetitive flow of daily life.
Sculptor Gevorg Tadevosyan on Stubbornness, bronze in tension, and how the human body acts as a structural element capable of organising space.
Henry Moore transformed how Britain viewed art, making abstraction accessible and public sculpture an integral part of civic life. His monumental reclining figures, initially challenging,…
Turn off the Georgian calm of St Paul’s Square into Brook Street and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists announces itself without ceremony. The RBSA…
The daily routines of creative people vary wildly, but the documented ones share a few habits: a protected block of hard work (usually early), a…
Courtney Sharpe talks about Surviving in Babylon, a Birmingham drama series drawn from their own life: writing ten episodes alone, the trailer, and what comes…