A new retrospective at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia examines the career of the 20th-century French painter, who ...

“Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets” is a major retrospective featuring almost 60 paintings from institutions around the world. It was put together by the Barnes Foundation, which has the largest ...

Open to the public on Sunday, Oct. 19, the Barnes Foundation’s “Henri Rousseau: A Painter’s Secrets” exhibit is not to be ...

The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

Tomokazu Matsuyama’s studio is located in a former Brooklyn rope factory, on the northernmost stretch of Greenpoint. Its spacious white walls are perfect for hanging the artist’s large-scale, wildly ...

One of the most famous tigers in art history is the one painted in Henri Rousseau's Surprise!: a canvas full of ambiguity, meticulously constructed and capable of evoking an imaginary jungle that the ...

I can't remember exactly what I was thinking about when I first saw them. It was one of those summer days that was defined chiefly by its sprawl. I had spent the morning at the gym; every year my ...

Henri Bergson’s philosophy for our times. Why did one of the early 20th century’s most famous philosophers go out of fashion? Fama is a fickle deity. at the turn of the 20th century, Henri Bergson was ...

A closer look at Henri Rousseau’s ‘The Merry Jesters’ reveals a complex artwork by a complicated man Henri Rousseau was a customs official who worked at a toll gate and only took up painting in his ...

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The man who introduced designer Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel to America in 1913 was from Lafayette (then called Vermilionville), and he had a fashion career of his own. Henri Bendel had a high-end ...