The fiftieth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out is a chance to recognise the importance of place to his poetry

This exhibition shows the world of the impressionists beyond their most famous paintings

The many women in white at the Royal Academy are just one aspect of Whistler’s brilliance

Woolf’s statue is the latest to come under review

A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook

Patricia Highsmith’s voluminous diaries paint a full picture of their author

The Francis Bacon exhibition revels in the animalistic side of mankind

T. S. Eliot would despair at this year’s shortlist for the prize in his name

The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best

The gallery has long been famous for its impressionist collection, but the reopening sheds light on other works of art