The National Portrait Gallery and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, are combining with The Art Fund to try and acquire a portrait of British engineer and inventor Sir Richard Arkwright by the painter Joseph Wright of Derby.

A new display has opened at the Natural History Museum to celebrate 150 years since the theory of natural selection was revealed to the world. The small exhibition marking this event includes pigeon bones prepared by Charles Darwin as well

The Whitstable Biennial opened last weekend with a series of one-off performances, art interventions and exhibitions spread across the well-to-do seaside town on the North Kent coast. Midst this colonisation of contemporary art, performances, films and other artistic interventions is

Photo) Khwaja Bahauddin. Takhar Province: November 2000 - the burqa had long been traditional for women in Afghanistan before the arrival of the Taliban. © Seamus Murphy

Riddle's Court, one of the most important, but least understood historic buildings in Edinburgh's Old Town, is set to reveal its secrets through a new research project. The project, called a conservation statement, has been funded by Edinburgh World Heritage