Sam Parker

Last year Jeffery Deaver became the latest author to conjure up a new adventure for the world's most famous spy, James Bond.

Only the second American writer to become a custodian of Ian Fleming's legacy, Deaver decided to reboot the story and imagine Bond as a contemporary agent, veteran of...

James Bunting co-runs the Bristol faction of poetry slam promoters Hammer & Tongue.

"I started performing poetry when I was 18 after seeing Andrea Gibson, Katie Wirsing and Buddy Wakefield at a chance night in Bristol. I was blown away; I had no idea poetry could be...

The stunning Althorp House

HuffPost UK Culture is delighted to announce our second media partner for 2012 – the Althorp Literary Festival.

The annual festival will welcome a remarkable line up of authors, critics and thinkers to what is probably the...

As our friends on HuffPost US pointed out while covering these vertigo-inducing photographs, the internet can't get enough of these sorts of 360-degree panoramic shots.

But Tokyo-born Sachigusa Yasuda has gone to greater lengths than most to make the technique her own, fitting up to 300 shots taken...

A trip to an art gallery and a romantic meal has long been the culture vulture's date of choice.

What could be more impressive as you attempt to woo than knowing your fettuccini from your Brunelleschi?

A pop up restaurant in London believes the two needn't be separates parts of...

Perfectly pheasant art

This week, Australian pop artist Linton Meagher is making his UK debut.

Arriving from with him from down under is a collection of his prints made out of shell casings, lipstick and scalpels.

Called That’s Grouse! – an Aussie...

Ever wondered what it would feel like to face a hurricane?

This funny series of shots by photographer Tadas Černiauskas won't tell you how it feels, but it should give you an indication of how you would look.

The Lithuanian invited hundreds of people to his studio in Vilnius to...

The London Police leave their mark in Newcastle

A wall in Newcastle upon Tyne has been turned over to a group of global street artists who have decorated it with a stunning new mural.

The London Police are an art...

He may be a superstar of British art and adored by American celebrities, but one place where Banksy doesn’t appear to be appreciated is down under.

At least not by one Melbourne building firm who decided to drill a hole through one of his artworks in order to install a...

Londoners are already contemplating using the Tube during the Olympics with the all the trepidation of gymnast attempting a quadruple backwards summersault, but Tracey Emin wants to do her bit to calm us down when the times comes.

Standing in a shop in Charing Cross Station on my way to see The Queen: Art & Image at The National Portrait Gallery, I happened to notice that the impulse shelf was stuffed with not 1 but 4 new books on Her Royal Highness.

A premonition of fatigue...

The latest Banksy? We think so...

As the country gears up for a period of Queen-mania, that other great institution of British life Banksy appears to have weighed in with his thoughts on the Royal Jubilee.

A new piece of graffiti art in Banksy’s...

If one purpose of street art is to make urban landscapes less predictable and wrench passersbys from their day dreams, then hats off to Manchester artist Filthy Luker.

His giant inflatable tentacles, floating pencils and cartoon eyes may lack the sophistication of complex murals, optical illusions...

Rat, Mole and Mr. Toad, drawn when Shepard was 90 years old

A sketch of Rat, Mole and Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows has sold for £37,000 at auction.

The drawing was made by illustrator Ernest...

When, back in 1996, photographer Lorenzo Agius went to shoot some relatively unknown actors making a film called Trainspotting, he couldn’t have know he was about to create some of the most iconic images of the decade.

Not that anything about that day or his subsequent success could be considered...

Adam Kammerling is the 2012 Hammer and Tongue National Slam Poet Championship.

“I was originally drawn to spoken word by the freedom it gives me as a writer. I love the fact that I can write and perform something that is basically an acapella rap, and then tell a...

Happy birthday Edward Lear!

You'll be pleased to know that, 200 years after you were born, your nonsense poems and limericks are still delighting kids and adults alike around the world.

Not only that, but your birthday is being marked across the UK, with performances of The...

In this short but moving new video released by Tate Britain, news presenter Jon Snow picks his two favourite pieces from their current collection.

The first is No Woman, No Cry by Chris Ofili, a painting that depicts Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, a story that...

This evening the artwork of troubled rock star and perpetual tabloid car crash Pete Doherty will be auctioned off to his fans.

The collection features several paintings – including the duet with the late Amy Winehouse that was made out of their own blood – as well as...

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, 1865

The first voice you hear, should you pause at the headphone points dotted around the British Library’s new exhibition Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, belongs to the poet Simon Armitage.

The man synonymous with West Yorkshire is...