Laura Freeman’s The Reading Cure will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in early 2018

Thomas Gainsborough, the good-time guy

James Hamilton’s biography of Thomas Gainsborough presents the painter as a lad about town

6 Oct 2017
Cotton Pickers (1945), Thomas Hart Benton. © Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/VAGA, NY/DACS, London

The paintings that captured a desperate decade

How the American artists of the 1930s depicted a country that was on its knees

6 Apr 2017