In 1837, an itinerant portrait painter named Sheldon Peck was one of the first settlers to put down roots in an area called Babcocks Grove. That area became Lombard, and now, to mark the town’s ...

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Adolph Gottlieb liked to kid Willem De Kooning that he was “the original 10th St. artist,” after the street where the two men and others helped to formulate abstract expressionism, the … ...

Cinema-goers will have the chance to see Akenfield at Stowmarket's Regal Cinema as part of an special exhibit at The Food Museum.

But here in our mountain village the blue train is usually late. Lily and I are waiting for our sons to come from boarding school. Lily drives, a long black car in summer, a small, fast one in winter.

A portrait artist has made "a unique contribution" to her village archives by painting nearly a third of the community. Jeannine Jourdan lives in Belstone, on the edge of Dartmoor, which has a ...