"Salome," a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a ...

Poised to compete across time zones, bidders in Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection were greeted at the start of this much-anticipated auction with the inimitable phrase ‘Hello Possums’ ahead of ...

Oscar Wilde’s grandson has condemned a new sculpture ... “I’m all for any sort of innovations in modern art. But this does seem to me to be unacceptable. It looks absolutely hideous ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest brought an Oscar Wilde poem for appraisal The poem ... century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art's sake. By the end of his life, he was ...