Home to a number of famous people — Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison — the cemetery is a work of art, too, with sculptured tombs and serpentine paths.

The heartbeat of modernism pulsed there, breaking conventions in art and literature. James Joyce's novels, Gertrude Stein's salons, Ezra Pound's poetry and Marcel Duchamp's objects all coexisted in ...

Glenn Ligon was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1960. Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources—literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs—to ...

Gertrude Stein (from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century), 1980 Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board 40 x 32 in. (101.6 x 81.28 cm.) Frame: 46 x 38 x 1 in. (116.84 x 96.52 x 2.54 cm.

Stein’s struggles were amplified by Joyce’s triumphs – but they both shared an artistic vision Gertrude Stein at her desk in Paris in the 1930s. Photo: Getty James Joyce and Gertrude Stein ...

There’s a gramophone, patinaed jazz-age horns, a manual typewriter, a candlestick telephone, and a few dusty volumes of Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, who inspired the name of the ...

It was biography, according to Gertrude Stein, that truly fulfilled the novel’s zeal for showing the full sweep of a life, and the genre has stayed faithful to its obsessive interest in ...

Chicago (CNN) — When did homosexuality become a fixed identity? At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning exhibition charts the period when “homosexuality” and ...

Life Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife review – her work, letters and shopping lists This forensically researched and lengthy tome uses previously unearthed documents that throw light on Stein’s ...

Review: ‘The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book’ When Toklas — Gertrude Stein’s partner — published this cookbook, it was reviewed by Rex Stout, the creator of the food-loving detective Nero Wolfe.

Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling (Source Images: Medios y Media/Getty Images, Anna Kurth—AFP/Getty Images, Alexander Tamargo—WireImage/Getty Images) The biggest music story of 2025 remains ...

While Donald Trump is calling for FEMA’s demise, NC Gov. Josh Stein is making an oddly conservative argument for keeping it the vein of Reagan.