In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand w...

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel a...

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lan...

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in ...

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own pers...