After Karina’s death, critics attempted to rehabilitate her life story, but they did so through Godard’s lens. Where, if anywhere, is Karina’s own voice?

You’ve already seen Berthe Morisot even if you’ve never heard of her. A new exhibit finally gives her her due as a painter.

Looking for Proust’s muse in Paris.

A new exhibition looks at the upheaval in the visual culture of Baudelaire’s Paris.In puritanical America, the intellectual tradition is in exile from the luxury of the senses: Americans hold steadfast to the idea that the right kind of knowledge com…

Looking for Proust’s muse in Paris.After making a careful study of contemporary fashion plates, Baudelaire came to the conclusion that one couldn’t examine clothes apart from the individual wearing them. “You might as well admire the tattered rag…

Ballet at the movies.In the 1980s, Hellman’s launched an extensive campaign to rebrand its mayonnaise products as health conscious. Between shots of garishly pink salmon and luxuriant folds of Romaine lettuce were ballet dancers: “Without a chore…