Flanking the boat-cum-club Thekla, Banksy’s Grim Reaper, has long been one of Bristol’s best-loved pieces of street art. Soon, Banksy enthusiasts will be able to admire it from the comfort of their ...

“Reason,” said the Belgian painter James Ensor, “is the enemy of art. Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling.” Ensor himself never ran the risk: in the 89 years he lived, he gave to the world a ...

Title page for a collection of ‘Bills of Mortality’ that chronicled the Great Plague’s death counts (1665) (via Wellcome Images) The personification of death goes back centuries, with Thanatos of ...