Elsewhere, a still life by 87-year-old British artist David Hockney ... paintings and 10 gouaches (water-based paintings) ...

The map has just about every empire represented ... this victory was very important for the British to commemorate. In paintings and sculpture, artists of the time recreated the moment.

Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade's quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome image belied a dark and tortured ...

“The paintings are not a direct response to any particular moment ... Ayres was honored with the Royal Academician in 1991 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011 for her ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

Kapoor was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991, and named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2003, and Knighthood in 2013 for services to the visual arts. In 2016, Mexico ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...