Maev Kennedy
Tate Britain displays England's first female professional painter
Paintings by 17th-century artist Mary Beale form part of gallery revamp that aims to showcase more female painters Two small paintings of a curly-haired boy, spotted in the window of a Parisian antiques shop and newly identified as tender sketches of her
Shakespeare's Globe opens indoor theatre to stage winter's tales
Shakespeare's Globe is to create a company of child actors for its new, candlelit indoor theatre – despite the fact that the craze for pint-sized players was sneered at by the bard himself in Hamlet: "an eyrie of children, little eyasses that cry out on
Isabel Rawsthorne: elusive painter who led the art world a merry dance
The dancer Hazel Merry looked critically at her own left foot, captured half a century ago by an artist she had never even noticed in the shadows of the rehearsal room: "That foot is not quite right, I think. Not entirely happy with that."
Royal Opera music director rails at young opera stars' 'weakness'
Young opera stars are too ready to pull out of productions because of "weakness" of body or temperament, according to Antonio Pappano, the internationally renowned conductor and music director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
Original Van Dyck unearthed at Bowes Museum in Durham
Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter, a Stewart lady in waiting, had been believed to be an undistinguished 19th-century copy A painting that has been languishing in a museum store for decades, regarded as an undistinguished copy, has been confirmed as a 17
V&A shows Henry VIII's stone leopards
Visitors to the V&A's treasure trove of royal bling from the Tudor, Stuart and Russian imperial courts who have been camping in France in the last 20 years may find something oddly familiar about the magnificent pair of snarling leopards standing guard at
Murillo's journey back into fashion
An exhibition of works by the 17th century painter at the Dulwich Picture Gallery should prompt a new look at the son of Seville The Penitent St Peter, hands locked in prayer and with battered bible at his bare feet, can expect admiring looks when he goe
Fish tales: new art show at Two Temple Place trawls Cornwall's past
From oyster boat to pilchard-press, Roo Gunzi's collection of Cornish cultural treasures marks a sea change for one of London's grandest buildings Fisherman hauling in nets, pilchard-pressing devices, and d'Artagnan: it's the Cornish art survey of a life