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Next year, Leighton House will mark its centenary as a public building, and an exhibition is now telling the rather varied uses it was put to before becoming a public museum. Leighton House was built as an artist’s studio and

Although often overlooked, women have played a significant role in the printing trade since its earliest days. To celebrate this long and frequently underestimated heritage, the V&A has brought together 25 remarkable printmakers whose work spans the past 125 years.

A map showing how the Post Office Tower was never a secret, next to an Enigma machine that was a flawed attempt to keep secrets, are two highlights of an exhibition about secret maps. It’s an exhibition with the word

London’s East End in the 1970s underwent incredible change in a short period, and a photography exhibition looks back at that lost world. It was both an area of considerable old poverty and post-WWII dereliction, but also the place where

Rarely seen due to its age and rarity, a 500-year-old birthing girdle is currently on display at the Wellcome Collection. A birthing girdle, or scroll, was a long length of parchment inscribed with Christian prayers and charms to protect a

For 150 years, the Liberty department store has commissioned artists to create its distinctive fabrics — and now a new exhibition shines a light on the women who broke through social and professional barriers to design for the famous London

Sometimes artists and exhibitions of art can try a bit too hard, be a bit too clever, and fall flat on their face as a result. Sadly, that’s what’s happened at the Freud Museum, where they invited an artist in