The National Portrait Gallery and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, are combining with The Art Fund to try and acquire a portrait of British engineer and inventor Sir Richard Arkwright by the painter Joseph Wright of Derby.
A new display has opened at the Natural History Museum to celebrate 150 years since the theory of natural selection was revealed to the world. The small exhibition marking this event includes pigeon bones prepared by Charles Darwin as well
The Whitstable Biennial opened last weekend with a series of one-off performances, art interventions and exhibitions spread across the well-to-do seaside town on the North Kent coast. Midst this colonisation of contemporary art, performances, films and other artistic interventions is
Riddle's Court, one of the most important, but least understood historic buildings in Edinburgh's Old Town, is set to reveal its secrets through a new research project. The project, called a conservation statement, has been funded by Edinburgh World Heritage
The soulstress Alicia Keys is back with her new album As I Am, decided to keep us warm during these cold months of winter, making us once more admire her amazing talent.
A piece of art owned by rock band U2 has sold for more than 5m at an auction held in London.The painting - Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) by late US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - was bought by U2 in New York in
Ed. note: This is the first in a U2 List series currently being revisited by the @U2 staff. The first series, which focused primarily on Top Tens, ran from August through October of 2002.]You give it all but I want
