How Sarah Bernhardt stole the heart of Paris
Nobody embodied the glitz and glamour of the fin-de-siècle quite like ‘La Divine’, as a lavish show at the Petit Palais proves
Tall tale: Gustave Eiffel and his tower get the big-screen treatment
Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star
Drama queen: a peek inside Marie Antoinette’s private theatre
When Marie Antoinette had a theatre built at Versailles, her play-acting took to a stage of its own – and now this splendid interior has been meticulously restored
‘Russian to a T’ – Natalia Goncharova at Tate Modern, reviewed
Avant-garde as she was, the artist was also deeply influenced by Russian folk traditions and history
Are the art market’s problems being blown out of proportion?