If you're familiar with the poem that begins "Tyger Tyger, burning bright," you know a bit about William Blake (1757-1827). Perhaps you've heard of the "dark Satanic Mills" or seen "Chariots of Fire?" ...

William Blake’s Universe feels a little hugger-mugger, as if part of its job is to offer up its secrets to like-minded enthusiasts.

In William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea (1820) a huge muscled figure fills the frame. He steps forward, the right ...

A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art.

"Blake was a visionary who saw how to create art that had never been created before, and the first man in the history of Western art to combine art and craft," says Windle. "The Death of the Strong ...

A major exhibition on William Blake's work, titled "William Blake: Visionary," is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through Jan. 14, 2024.

Philip Hoare’s “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love” has this poet, artist and mystic at its center but, as its title suggests, this is no conventional study. As in Mr. Hoare’s 2021 ...

How hard would it be to portray war as an artist correspondent? Artist correspondents had to work quickly and under tremendous stress as they tried to record battles and other vagaries of war sketc… ...

These Tiny Doodles May Be William Blake’s Earliest Engravings, Overlooked for Nearly 250 Years Using high-res scans, a researcher uncovered scribbled etchings likely made by the British poet and ...

John Windle has been a respected antiquarian bookseller in San Francisco for 40 years. Last month, he opened the William Blake Gallery as an adjunct to his shop in the famous 49 Geary St. art ...

Artists Artist Monica Bonvicini on William Blake, Rage, and Touching Art The Berlin-based artist is opening her first solo exhibition with Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York City.

The first stanza of "The Tyger," a poem by the late-18th/early-19th century English Romantic poet, painter and printmaker William Blake published in 1794, is one of the most famous in the English ...