Museums around the globe have pulled out the stops to celebrate the 250th birthday of celebrated Romantic painter JMW Turner. Often called the “master of light,” the doyen of British art is beloved ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half a ...

What happened to the Turner Prize? What was once seen as Britain’s most controversial art award couldn’t sustain itself forever on the tabloid-fuelled outrage of its Nineties peak period. Yet the ...