A still life by Francisco de Goya appears at the start of this exhibition, depicting three raw salmon steaks oozing blood onto a counter. Nearby, a painting in a very different mode – Gustave ...

A centuries-old harbor in France has long inspired painters such as Claude Monet and Eugène Boudin. Today, artists still ...

Collection comprises portions of 19th-century French gallery archives acquired by the Dieterle family as they built their art dealership and developed particular expertise in Jean-Baptiste-Camille ...

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The moment will forever be seared in my memory. It was December 1, 2022, at President and Dr. Biden’s France state dinner. That evening was the first time the administration felt a dinner was ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us what it was like to be so unhinged—and win awards for it.

Karine Jean-Pierre’s two-and-a-half-year stint as White House press secretary was marked by what many saw as a series of embarrassing and even controversial moments. In May 2022, Jean-Pierre ...

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In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British woman to receive an Oscar nomination, for Mike Leigh’s suburban gut punch Secrets & Lies. She was heartbreaking in it, as a ...

You might know Jean-Baptiste from Leigh's wonderful 1996 film, Secrets & Lies, in which she played a shy, unassuming London optometrist seeking out her birth mother. But there's nothing unassuming ...