Rose Wylie

Arts subjects are increasingly marginalized in the UK curriculum – but the controversial intellectual suggests art is better done at home

With the government’s push for the controversial English baccalaureate, why the arts should be an integral part of the curriculum

The four Royal Academicians have been commissioned to create 200 flags to line Bond Street, Piccadilly, Regent Street and St James’s

How living in the Kent countryside for four decades has influenced the British artist’s paintings

At a time of revolution in digital technologies, when making extraordinary images has never been technically easier, painting persists. Jennifer Higgie asked eight artists to share their thoughts on the whys and wherefores of figurative painting