Behind the scenes at the Manchester School of Art, 1929

Skip the tuition fees and take a crash course at the Manchester School of Art, the second oldest...

Royals, Rifles and Rivalry: 7 iconic moments in the history of the Royal Academy

In 2018 we will celebrate the 250th birthday of one of Britain’s oldest and most renowned...

BPP: The Black Panther Party

On October 15, 1966, American political activists Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the...

Portrait of a modern monarch: Queen Victoria and the rise of photography

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) 1842 (oil on canvas), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) / Château...

The Secret Lives of Artists

From the grand studio homes of Victorian artists residing in their suits to the paint splattered...

Australia’s WWI Heroes on Film

Bridgeman Footage goes down under with clips of the Australian armed forces in World War One,...

Artists on Film

One of the beautiful things about the invention of the camera is the preservation of fleeting,...

Artist Spotlight: The short colourful life of August Macke

German Expressionist artist August Macke (1887-1914) rewrote the course of German art as one of...

Artists & their Muses: The women behind history’s greatest paintings revealed

Did you know that Botticelli’s ethereal faces were said to be of one woman, the beautiful...

Artist’s Resale Right: Ten Years On

Over the past ten years, the Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) has benefited countless artists and...