Francesca Wade is the author of ‘Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars’ (Faber). She is working on a book about Gertrude Stein.
In Paris, the American writer and her siblings were early patrons of the likes of Matisse and Picasso, making their Left Bank apartment a magnet for art lovers
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
The painter who was at the heart of the New York avant-garde captured the many excitements of the modern age
Clive Bell is now best known as Vanessa’s husband – but a new biography replenishes his role in promoting modernism in Britain
It is 150 years since women first arrived at Cambridge – and the fight for equality has taken almost as long
