In the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, a young woman, Belle, dances and sings inside a magical castle where inanimate objects come to life. The cast of characters includes a French-accented ...
Art museums have a really tough time dealing with Hollywood product in a coherent and illuminating way. Mass culture and art culture are not the same thing, so the usual curatorial strategies often ...
‘Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of the French Decorative Arts,’ a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, traces Disney’s movies back to influences from Rococo. My six-year-old ...
The Little Mermaid lyric, “Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?” will take on a new level of meaning for museum-goers visiting The Met’s latest exhibition, “Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of ...
PARIS — Le Grand Palais is where Parisians go to worship Les Grands Artistes -- Delacroix, for example, or Renoir or Manet. So the latest show there is practically a revolution. Now the Grand Palais ...