The rise and fall of the English governess, the domestic heroine who inspired Victorian literature’s greatest authors. Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad wo
Helena Rubinstein and L'Oreal's Eugene Schueller both started out in the beauty business during the first years of the twentieth century, and, by the time World War II broke out, had come to dominate
For many performers, stage life and real life are separate identities. For master illusionist Harry Houdini, the two were inextricably linked. In this widely acclaimed biography, Ruth Brandon shows ho
Dr Reggie Lee, a new arrival at the National Gallery, is organizing a small exhibition around three Caravaggio paintings depicting "St Cecilia and the Angel". One is at the Getty, one at the Louvre, a
A guide to Surrealism traces the movement's origins from the final days of World War I through the following decades, focusing on the work of such seminal artists as Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and
