Peter Parker’s books include ‘A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners’ and 'Housman Country: Into the Heart of England' (both Little Brown)
The Edwardians are associated with elegance but an exhibition at the King’s Gallery in London suggests that excess was the hallmark of the age
By exhibiting Two Figures in the Grass the artist succeeded in attracting the controversy he was almost certainly courting
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
The new art, film and photography galleries at the Imperial War Museum contain many welcome surprises
The first garden created by the designer for a house by Edwin Lutyens has been bought by the National Trust – preserving a vital piece of history
The painter’s close friendship with the Wertheimers is quite evident in the many portraits he made of them all
Denis Wirth-Miller was unfairly dismissed as an imitator of his friend Francis Bacon, but it’s now clear that his detractors were wholly in the wrong
A new book does justice to the life and work of the little-known artist Suzanne Cooper
The painter’s contemporaries saw him as a successor to Sargent, but his depictions of Black and queer subjects may stand out more today
The charity Queer Britain is opening the country's first space dedicated to LGBTQ+ culture, but will its programme entertain as well as educate?
