Little dancer aged fourteen

THROUGH HISTORY

Uncomfortable realities and alternative realms at Venice’s contemporary dance festival

From ballets to the Boat Race, Chanel has an enduring legacy of nurturing excellence in Britain. Today, the French maison is finding new ways to put art and culture in the spotlight

The piece I’d never part with

So close was Jean-François Millet to the humble peasants he painted that he wore clogs and coarse clothing. He was steeped in nostalgia, yet inspired avant-garde artists from van Gogh to Salvador Dalí, finds Mary Miers

The story of England’s forgotten French art school