After eye-opening exhibits on Tracey Emin and Hew Locke and fresh, expansive looks at J.M.W. Turner and William Blake in the ...

While you wait in the virtual queue for “Manet/Degas,” it’s worth a stop by “British Vision: 1700-1900,” a new rotation of works on paper from the Met’s collection. The Department of Drawings and ...

For all the world attention they get, British abstract expressionists might as well be painting on another planet. The British public might even suspect that it’s one of those things that isn’t done.

J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, between 1817 and 1820; watercolor, gum, scraping out on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art The ...

Leading contemporary painter George Shaw grew up in the 1970s and 1980s on the Tile Hill “council estate,” a government-developed suburban community for the working-class Briton — not unlike American ...

Though Britain has had more than its share of internationally renowned sculptors in recent years, first-class English painters have been few and far between. Of those who have come forward, nearly all ...

British painter Leon Kossoff’s death a year ago on July 4, 2019, at the age of 92, received such scant notice that one could be excused for not knowing that the artist was considered, by many familiar ...