The Guardian

First cartoon of Bank of England as 'old lady' on show

The vicious political cartoon in which the Bank of England's famous nickname, the old lady of Threadneedle Street, first appeared in print is going on display at the bank for the first time.

The A303: Highway to the Sun by Tom Fort - review

Lovingly remembered from childhood holidays, the strip of tarmac from Basingstoke to Devon is both subject and hero of this hilarious memoir It is an unusually good writer, I decided after wiping my eyes, who can make tears brim in the first two pages of

Steve Hackett - review

What is the best way for a seminal band to preserve their musical legacy? The answer probably is not for one of their members to spend the latter part of his career obsessively rerecording and tweaking their repertoire, and touring it as the fulcrum of wh

Walk through British Art: the Tate Britain rehang - in pictures

The newly reworked Tate Britain permanent collection in London takes visitors from 1500 to the present, pitting artists from the same eras - such as LS Lowry and Lucian Freud - against each other

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