A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history and photography have run in parallel.

Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience – and an "acceptance of the seasonality of life".

Following the release of the US president-elect's official portrait, an expert reveals how scouring the pages of art history can help decode its meaning.

It's been a year of lookalikes – but the lure of the "second self" goes way back to ancient folklore and the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and Sigmund Freud.

How a rarely-seen drawing of the Three Graces by Raphael reveals the era's ideas about nudity, modesty, shame – and the artist's genius.

Dismissed by some as unserious or silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal.

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers who began to capture the transformation of the environment.

A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would "irreversibly alter how London saw itself".