Soldiers used to look like soldiers in Victorian times, when they had an empire to subdue.  The Drill Hall was designed in 1882 for the B...

This vital, swirling image on an Oxford Street palace of commerce was inspired by the prima ballerina Darcy Bussell. Dancer with Ribbon w...

Artists are rarely blessed with the gift of words, which is why they communicate through images, but Hew Locke is an exception. He descri...

Admiralty Arch is one end of the transformation of the Mall into a national monument to Queen Victoria, which also included the refacing o...

You could make a bundle out of tea back in the days of Empire. Sir Thomas Lipton spent much of his enormous fortune on yachting ('like...

Hans Feibusch was the Church of England's favourite artist in the post-war years. Not only was he a convert from Judaism, his art had ...

These vigorous horses are racing in the palio di Siena, the famous races round the Piazza del Campo in that city. They were made in 1999 b...