THE DAILY PIC (#1435): William Hogarth’s caricatures are so great that it’s easy to imagine that their wild distortions somehow come straight and inevitably from who he is, naturally, as an artist.

William Hogarth’s sketching habit did not go down well in France, where it led to his arrest for spying. He was only released after he managed to prove he was an artist by drawing several disobliging ...

Massachusetts’s Worcester Art Museum (WAM) is unveiling two newly restored William Hogarth (1697–1764) pendant portraits, the first paintings by the artist owned by an American museum, in the latest ...

The restoration of a long-concealed stairwell in England's oldest functioning hospital, which is set to showcase two impressive large-scale paintings by the celebrated artist William Hogarth, is ...

Paintings and engravings by one of Britain’s best-known artists are to be displayed in a new exhibition exploring their links with an infamous uprising. Works by the renowned 18th-century artist, ...

A syphilitic prostitute dying in squalor; a libertine violently insane in an infamous madhouse; an old drunk sits on a set of steps, seemingly oblivious of her exposed bosom, as her child tumbles over ...

There are certain types of shoes that belong in a museum, whether it's Christian Louboutin's red-soled pumps or Alexander McQueen's armadillo platform heels. Throughout history, art and shoes have ...

On ancient Mesopotamia, Hogarth’s London, Erich Heckel, a lecture at the Frick & more from the world of culture.

If someone’s remembered simply by the utterance of their surname, one can only presume they are either famously or infamously remembered. In the world of art and antiques, names like Chippendale and ...