My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...

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In a very real sense, there is no such thing as “contemporary” art. Once something is made, it is part of history, whether a thousand years have passed or just a day. They require closer attention ...

In William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea (1820) a huge muscled figure fills the frame. He steps forward, the left side of his body towards the viewer. In one outstretched hand he holds a ...

A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art. By Walker Mimms Reporting from ...

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England has hatched an ambitious plan to rebuild the studio of William Blake (1757–1827) as the centerpiece of the institution’s upcoming exhibition, “William Blake: ...

The artworks of William Blake are known for their highly charged, spiritual energy. Now, they are getting a high-tech new incarnation with “United Visions,” an augmented reality (AR) experience by ...

You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (flourished ...

More than 90 works by the artist William Blake are to be displayed in an exhibition which aims to shed new light on the British poet and printmaker. The exhibition at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, ...