When the SNP first took the reins of power in Holyrood, Alex Salmond and his Cabinet promised to heed the words of Alasdair ...

Ride the torpedo until the end of the tube.” This has been Lord Botham’s philosophy for as long as he can remember, capturing ...

I’m with those who put William Nicholson at the forefront of 20th-century British painting. But two things obscure his ...

Aviator Alfred Buckham created some of the earliest and most awe-inspiring bird's-eye images – to achieve them, he employed perilous, death-defying acts of ingenuity.

The Hay Wain is considered to be one of Constable's best known works. Created in 1821, the oil painting depicts an idyllic ...

On the announcement of a competition for a memorial to Muriel Spark in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens, Herald columnist Rosemary ...

Owned by the cosmetics king Leonard Lauder, the work could become the most expensive Van Gogh drawing ever sold ...

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These 10 thefts show that some people steal for political clout, to pad their own stash, and to simply show that it can be ...

A pitch invader has been banned from entering a football stadium for five years after a court found his antics contributed to “disorder and violence”.

Vincent van Gogh’s Parisian Novels (November-December 1887) sold for $62.7m at Sotheby’s, New York on 20 November, a record ...

Born in 1945, in Dublin, to a pre-eminent family of the Anglo-Irish gentry, Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe is one the ...