A rare book of poetry and artwork by William Blake sold for a sky-high US$4.3 million on Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a world record for the English literary figure, according to the ...

Through Nov. 30. Visit the museum’s website for hours and more information. The poem is famous, so we think we know it. But really, we only recognize the first stanza: “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / ...

The Morning Comes (1793-1821), by William Blake. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. William Blake’s Universe, the new (free) exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, is a celebration of work ...

Possessing an ethereal delicacy, at first seemingly naïve, but in actuality hinting at divine depths, William Blake’s paintings are truly visionary. But as respected as the English poet and painter ...

A show at the Getty Museum examines the British writer, painter and printmaker, who aspired in his work to achieve the mythical. Dominic Green ...

In 1966, I arrived at college to discover that William Blake had become the patron saint of a revolution. Students in those days confused the poet Blake with certain drawings he had made of leonine ...

William Blake comes alive in Dublin in this powerful exhibition exploring his radical vision, influence and enduring ...

What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, what’s the use of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, and the rise of fascism? Rather than ...

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 ...

William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...