Leslie Carr was an accomplished illustrator and poster artist active from the 1920s to the 1950s. Transport subjects were his speciality and...

Eugène François Vidocq often seems as much a fictional character as Fantômas. A career criminal and master of disguise who crossed over to t...

When buildings take on the appearance of things they are not, architectural purists are appalled while the rest of us are silently rejoicing...

I’ve watched this exhilarating and fascinating film three times in the last week and shall do so again before long. There is no colour, no s...

These budget-priced sweets could have been designed to inflict maximum damage on young teeth. They have the consistency of vulcanized rubber...

For nearly 20 years the Divisionist painter Paul Signac lived here in a sixth floor studio apartment. It was November 1897 when he moved in ...

All over England there are Men in White anxiously staring at the leaden sky while the north wind freezes their fingers wondering whether the...