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Art fans gather on Richmond Hill for a talk from Gillian Forrester as part of Sandycombe Lodge's celebrations for Turner's 250th birthday. (Picture credit: Ciaran Whyte)

J.M.W. Turner’s 250th birthday celebrated at his Twickenham house

The 250th birthday of Britain’s foremost landscape painter J.M.W. Turner was celebrated at his former residence in Twickenham on 23 April.

Joel Tan in rehearsals for Scenes from a Repatriation (Picture credit: Alex Brenner)

In conversation with playwright Joel Tan as Scenes from a Repatriation opens

Joel Tan’s latest play, Scenes from a Repatriation, examines questions over who claims cultural artefacts, the politics around stolen art

Grade ll listed British telephone box turns into London’s smallest art gallery

An artist has opened and managed an art gallery inside a telephone box in central London. Degard, the owner of

picture of the outside of Piccadilly Hard Rock Cafe.The Name is in bold red writing the brick is grey.

Review: Thanksgiving at the iconic Piccadilly Hard Rock Cafe

Thanksgiving is the largest dining event in the United States, so we wanted to conquer every food lover’s favourite holiday

Image shows the outside of the Natural History Museum.

VIDEO: Halloween at the Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum welcomed visitors to its after-hours Halloween event last week. Lit up in red, the South Kensington

An image of the fungarium inside Kew Gardens

The world’s largest collection of fungi is under Kew Gardens

Underground, walking between towering walls of moss green compartments, I am handed a fungus around the size of a newborn

Greek Marble in the British Museum

Luxury and Power: the British Museum’s new exhibition is modern and daring

Bronze, marble, glass and blood meet and mingle in ways never before at the British Museum’s newest exhibition, Luxury and

Blue map of 19th Cenutry China by the British Museum

British Museum exhibition to showcase lost relics of 19th century China

China’s Hidden Century will debut at the British Museum this May to tell the story of China’s final dynasty and

Orleans House Gallery Exhibition on Victorian explorer who searched for the source of the Nile

An exhibition is opening at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham on 19 November, inspired by Sir Richard Burton’s expedition to

The Natural History Museum’s spirit collections are open to tours from the public

The Natural History Museum in Kensington is running public tours of its spirit collections, which are normally inaccessible to the

Lambeth’s Garden Museum explores Windrush horticultural heritage

Lambeth’s Garden Museum is about to launch its Caribbean Heritage Project, revealing an untold history of how the Windrush generation

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