No.1 Royal Crescent is presenting the exhibition Being There, featuring four recently acquired Thomas Gainsborough portraits and 18 contemporary artists.

You should read it, I say, especially if you work at a university. Olivia Laing on Chantal Joffe’s self-portraits: “Unless you’re Benjamin Button, you’re getting older by the second.

The photographer Anna Fox and the painter Chantal Joffe review Julia Margaret Cameron at the V and A and the journalist, Larissa MacFarquhar talks to Anne McElvoy about altruism. Show more Anne ...