“Greenwich Mean Time was established in 1884, in no small part because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other subjects.

The result is a show to make you "fall in love" with the impressionists and their precursors all over again. Featuring two ...

Across furniture, silver, folk and outsider art, manuscripts, painting and more, Christie’s specialists give us an insider look at important objects of American history on offer this January.

You often hear this described as ASCII art, today, although hams usually use 5-bit BAUDOT code, so that’s a misnomer for those images, at least. Of course, today, people aren’t keen on storing ...

Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee ...

Bill Traylor was an American painter and one of the most celebrated Outsider artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. With his unique figurative style, Traylor depicted a lost era of the rural agrarian ...

In the year 1826, the governor of Pyeongan Province - now part of modern-day North Korea - hosted a grand banquet along the Taedong River to honor a new cohort of successful provincial examination ...

from the 17th Century to the end of the 19th Century. These clips are taken from the BBC series The Britain that Women Made. Suitable for: Art and Design and History at KS3 in England, Wales and ...