By Michael Prodger JMW Turner baffled his contemporaries. At the beginning of his career he was a prodigy, a preternaturally gifted tyro who joined the Royal Academy Schools at 14, and at 15 became ...

JMW Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise (around 1845), on display in the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain Photo: Courtesy of Tate And this episode’s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was the first modern artist, his impressionistic landscapes and seascapes preceding French Impressionism by at least half ...

Alnwick Castle played a starring role as Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films and has just re-opened for the season until October, so visitors can take a tour to learn about the centuries of history ...

Tickets for the Walker Art Gallery’s major exhibition exploring the work of JMW Turner and his enduring impact on later generations are on sale from today – exactly 250 years since the artist ...

This being the 250th anniversary of JMW Turner’s death, there are any number of events and exhibitions dedicated to the great man, who was, let’s not forget, one of the great revolutionaries ...

Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize. Announced on the 250th anniversary of English artist JMW Turner’s birth, the four ...

Keli Mr. Turner director Mike Leigh, art historian Charlotte Mullins and senior curator at Tate Amy Concannon join Tom Sutcliffe to celebrate the life and work of JMW Turner, as we approach the ...

The Bailiffgate Hotel is set to welcome its first guests at the end of May. Nestled beside Alnwick Castle, the Bailiffgate Hotel occupies the former Commissioner’s House - a building that later ...

The legacy of British artist JMW Turner is without question and has been widely celebrated this week which marks the 250th anniversary of his birth. He has inspired generations of other artists ...