Painting & Drawing
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A Very British Artist: River and Rowing opens new permanent John Piper Gallery
A new permanent gallery at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, the home town of John Piper, has opened to celebrate the artist's life and work.

Henry VIII's lost palace of Nonsuch - V&A acquires a painting that shows us what it looked like
A watercolour by the celebrated Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel depicting Henry VIII's fabled lost palace of Nonsuch has been 'saved for the nation' by the V&A.