Much of what we know, or think we know, about the court of Henry VIII comes directly from the paintings of Hans Holbein. There’s the famous portrait of the king himself –... Read more »
Lucy Steeds has won the 2025 Waterstones debut fiction prize for her novel The Artist, which has been praised for its “atmospheric, sensory prose.” Set in an artist’s household in 1920s Provence,... Read more »
It was the end of the 1990s, and I was in my 20s working as a legal academic at Kingâs College London, but I wasnât in love with the law. I needed a change.... Read more »
Copies of George Orwellâs dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four have been arriving at an artistâs studio in Edinburgh for months. Every shape and size, posted from Ukraine, Hong Kong, Peru, Germany, Cape Cod... Read more »
To write fiction about art is notoriously hard. Inventing bad art is easy, an excellent parlour game, but to imagine a successful artist you have to create a body of work that... Read more »