Lucy Davies

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Lucy Davies

'The forgotten Monet': How masterful paintings by the artist's stepdaughter are finally getting recognitionArt Institute of Chicago/ Arthur M Wood/ Collection of Alice and Rick JohnsonBlanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him. Haystack at Giverny, Poplars at the Water's Edge, Morning on the Seine.

4 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Lucy Davies

You don’t so much enter a building designed by John Soane, as submit to it. The eccentric Regency architect used light and colour as others less capable in the field did mere brick and stone, and at Pitzhanger Manor, the country seat he created for himself at Ealing in 1804, they mould the interior to magical effect.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucy Davies

Henri Matisse is such a pillar of 20th-century art that you may ask yourself what could possibly remain to be discovered about him. But as Matisse et Marguerite, a forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, will illustrate, the answer is: plenty. Marguerite, who died in 1982, was the artist's eldest child, born in 1894 when he was an impoverished bohemian of 24 and in a tumultuous on-off relationship with the model Camille Joblaud.

1 month ago | ft.com | Lucy Davies

Grayson Perry is contemplating robbery. And no, the esteemed artist and broadcaster has not gone to rack and ruin.

1 month ago | miltonkeynes.co.uk | Lucy Davies

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA learning disabilities charity, Camphill Milton Keynes, has unveiled the opening of its new accessible homes for adults with learning disabilities and autism. The charity announced its plans three years ago when it began fundraising for the first £3.3 million to create new accessible homes for individuals with additional needs.