From the Shadows at the National Gallery, revisits an artist who captured the drama of observation during the Enlightenment.
Here, five of the speakers choose a moment of Arts and Crafts Beauty in, or created in, London.
The musical theater composer stopped in Wilmington during the “Phantom of the Opera” revival tour to talk about Victorian-era paintings. Andrew Lloyd Webber and curator Sophie Lynford stand in front ...
From burning castles to swords and magic and velvet gowns, medievalism has taken over 21st century pop culture. Pop star Chappell Roan is one of the many culture makers turning to the imagery of ...
It started with an entirely different book-to-screen adaptation: Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version of the The Great Gatsby. That was the first time that Christopher Young, Vice President & Creative Director ...
This piece received third place in the nonfiction category of the 2025 Wallace Prize. When I was nineteen it was my simple pleasure to walk every morning from class on York Street to my small room ...
THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...
In 1848, London first saw the initials P.R.B. in the corners of paintings. The artists who put them there wanted no one to mistake their work for Raphael’s. Nobody was likely to. P.R.B. stood for the ...
You never know who you'll see in Delaware. On April 21, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber popped into the Delaware Art Museum. According to its social media sites, Webber, the English composer of songs from ...
Visitors to a new exhibition in England will not only be able to look upon painted scenes and characters: They’ll be able to smell them, too. “Scent and the Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,” which is on ...
Little did Elizabeth Siddal dream, as she reclined fully clothed in a tub in painter Sir John Everett Millais’s London studio in the winter of 1852, that she would one day be a style icon. The model ...