France

From rustic barns to Riviera villas, Pablo Picasso’s studios were engines of invention. Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in partnership with Musée national Picasso-Paris, t

Pierre d’Alancaisez on Art COURTESY OF CHENG-LAN ART ...

Not many successful breakaways involve almost 5,000m of climbing over 324km, but that’s exactly what Napoleon Bonaparte pulled off in just six days in the spring of 1815. After escaping from exile on

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

“Barcelona under Franco was very grey, very boring, but Cadaqués was very colourful. There were a lot of foreigners, things happening; it opened my eyes,” explains Antoni Muntadas, one of the leading