Toulouse-Lautrec: Celebrity and Cabaret Culture in Paris

The Chat Noir, the Moulin Rouge, the Folies Bergère. Explore the cabarets and dance halls that defined the nightlife of Montmartre, the heart of bohemian Paris, and became the subjects of Toulouse-Lautrec’s art. Here aristocrats, workers, artists, musicians, and poets talked, laughed, sang, drank, watched, and danced. Before their eyes, new stars were born as part of a particularly modern culture of celebrity.

Catherine Clark, associate professor, French Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, March 13, 2019