Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one ...

There are lots of Canada geese about, in these parts at least. I suspect most are new arrivals and not the resident birds that have been here all winter. There aren’t any snow geese yet, however. It’s ...

Pieter Bruegel’s 1565 painting Jagers in de Sneeuw (Hunters in the Snow) is also known by the alternative title of Winter—fitting for one of the most notable winter landscapes in Western art.

Winter was not always beautiful. Until Pieter Bruegel painted Hunters in the Snow, the long bitter months had never been transformed into a thing of beauty. BBC Four documentary Tales of Winter ...