Even in 1480s rural Essex, women were battling the gender pay gap. On one farm in Stebbing near Braintree in 1483, 27 men and 16 women were hired to bring in the harvest. The men were paid 4p a day – but for Cateryn Lytyll, Marget Pers and the 14 other women, the rate was

Artist Esme Layne, one of the Wellingborough residents who submitted work, said the exhibition is a “public representation of black Britishness”. Growing up during the seventies and eighties, Esme says she experienced racism that left her “with a sense of not belonging”. She said: “While I consider myself a black British artist, my ancestry is

London’s museums and galleries are great, sure. But there’s a whole country of great museums and galleries to explore, and there’s no better month to do it than August. London’s art spaces are either shut for the holidays and putting on boring group shows, but art is thriving outside of the capital. There’s brilliant photography

Click here for more information and to enter on the Homiens website The Homiens Art Prize Entries close 11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 31, 2024. The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize valued at $24,000 USD annually, and open to all artists. All art forms, mediums, and completion dates are eligible. We

El Anatsui’s spectacular shimmering TSIATSIA – searching for connection (2013) adorns the University of Edinburgh’s handsome Old College Quad courtesy of Talbot Rice; Do Ho Suh explores ideas of home at National Galleries of Scotland; and Ibrahim Mahama has made a series of new works responding to the railway that runs beside the gallery at

A reclusive artist whose work hung alongside masters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí has agreed to the first major exhibition of his dream-like paintings half a century after he withdrew from the art world. Henry Orlik, now 77 and living near Marlborough in Wiltshire, was in his 20s when his talent was recognised

Boy George has said his new art collections, Fame and The Originals, are about “joy, humour, and celebrating otherness”. The four mixed-media silkscreen portraits in Fame explore the music star’s relationship with stardom and depict some of the musicians who have inspired him through the years – Madonna, David Bowie and Prince. “You know, there’s

But what do people on the street think? At 08:00 BST on Friday, Brick Lane is relatively quiet – the hum of tourists who usually descend for food, fashion and street art are nowhere to be seen yet. But there are a few who take advantage of the lack of traffic, stopping in the middle

Provenance: Jacques Langlois (1681–1722), painter and dealer on the Pont Notre Dame, Paris; the inventory following his death on the 16th December 1722, included ‘Le Reve, du sieur Watteau, b.d.[bordure dorée]…120 l. [livres]’. Painting arrived in London, c. 17231; Sir Robert Walpole M.P., 1st Earl of Orford, Prime Minister of England (1676–1745). By 1736, as

The National Lottery spokesperson said the “game changers” were nominated by members of the public and selected by a panel. They were chosen as examples of inspiring individuals who developed and delivered Lottery-funded projects to preserve heritage and enhance science and the environment. The other “game changers” include Teresa Anderson MBE, director of Jodrell Bank