Paris
Sleeping with the enemy
Around 200 Englishwomen lived through the German Occupation of Paris. Nicholas Shakespeare’s aunt Priscilla was one. Men in the street…
Flight of the imagination
Towards the end of his life, Georges Braque described his vision in the following terms: ‘No object can be tied…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
Gay abandon
Richard Davenport-Hines on the charmed, dizzy world of the multi-talented Colette
Buying a pup
The contrast could not have been more acute. It came the day after a press release from Christie’s New York…
