“Cursed” gemstones, beautiful emblems of famous love affairs, and symbols of dark histories – all these dazzling jewels have intriguing backstories, writes Daisy Woodward....

A new exhibition at London’s Barbican Art Gallery celebrates the work of Alice Neel, an unconventional, innovative artist who painted those on the margins...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist’s evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour...

Starring Lily James and Shazad Latif, this new romcom focuses on an arranged marriage plotline – and subtly redresses Western judgements about the practice,...

Fela Kuti penned Beasts of No Nation after time spent in prison – it has become a song, and album, that still inspires many...

Some of the nominations for best picture at this year’s Oscars were easy to predict. The Fabelmans is the venerable Steven Spielberg’s love letter...

Annie Lord, dating columnist at British Vogue and author of break-up memoir Notes On Heartbreak, thinks this might be the case. “I just really want...

Natazca Boon, who plays the female MC that guides the London show, tells me this feeling is completely designed from inception: “For Channing it...

Certain items came in for specific criticism. Take the nameplate necklace now so synonymous with Bradshaw that to many it is known simply as...