Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, initially unsuccessful but now an accepted classic and hugely influential, was released four decades ago...

You might think you know Walter Sickert, creator of dark interiors suggesting darker deeds. But as I found at Tate Britain’s current...

Eighty years ago Nazi Germany’s bombing offensive devastated the City of London, then as now the financial centre of the British capital....

For a while in the 2000s it looked like Canadian comedian Mike Myers, of all people, had accurately predicted the expansion plans of the...

Five centuries ago, what made an artist? Education? Talent? Curiosity? Luck? All four contributed to the success enjoyed by Raphael, the...

Until Wednesday one of the ‘Secrets of the London Underground’ was when, exactly, Crossrail would open, but TfL’s announcement that day...

The question is often asked by those calling for the restitution of objects in the collections of the London institution, the world’s...