The Brits have humored and horrified us with a number of very British mistakes over the years, with the almost exquisitely bewildering madness of Brexit standing in good company among other blots on a ...

In a very real sense, there is no such thing as “contemporary” art. Once something is made, it is part of history, whether a thousand years have passed or just a day. They require closer attention ...

My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...

William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...

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William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III, aimed to ...

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye / ?Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - William Blake The first stanza of "The Tyger," a poem by the ...

The artworks of William Blake are known for their highly charged, spiritual energy. Now, they are getting a high-tech new incarnation with “United Visions,” an augmented reality (AR) experience by ...

If painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake’s art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language, he was almost ...

To save it from collapse, crews will conduct extensive renovations at William Blake's cottage in West Sussex. The Blake Cottage Trust A dilapidated English cottage rented by William Blake, the lauded ...