'My stories usually start with a character. I begin with collecting her belongings – clothes, objects, accessories, wigs.' Anja Niemi takes us behind the scenes of her intricate photo narratives.
Discover a love potion from the ancient world in this extract from 'Ancient Magic'.
'It is better to be angry and active than angry and passive.' On the launch of his ambitious new series, 'This Empty World', photographer Nick Brandt talks to Thames & Hudson about apathy, 'environmental Armageddon', and why he chose to work in colour for the first time.
The British Museum’s new exhibition 'The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard' is now open, the first major museum display of artists’ postcards. Discover the stories behind the postcards.
Take a look inside master printmaker Anthony Burrill’s wonderful world of printed matter, presented through a personal selection of offbeat ephemera and typographic curiosities.
It was the Old Master's anniversary in January of this year, but amid the crowds and the selfies, the souvenirs and the queues, it can be easy to feel a certain da Vinci fatigue. Enter Giorgio Vasari’s 'Life of Leonardo', replete with all the artist’s original and revolutionary force.
James IV took the throne at age fifteen. He was a king that took the field at the head of his own troops and refused to let himself be ruled by his nobles. Discover his story and that of Scotland in 'Scotland: A Concise History'.
Kelly Grovier, the author of 'A New Way of Seeing', reveals what Botticelli’s Venus has in common with hurricanes and galaxies.
Civilization: The Way We Live Now: Not since Edward Steichen’s Family of Man has a photographic project taken on such an ambitious, global scope.
What’s the secret to Marc Jacobs? Fashion writer and professor Iain R Webb explores the designer’s all-American pragmatism, reimagined classics, and that exquisite meeting of couture and grunge.