Jean Cocteau

UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV

2013-03-15 05:00:00

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...

Oscar presenter Marlene Dietrich

2013-02-05 00:33:36

Jacques Barzun dies at 104; helped found field of cultural history

2012-10-27 00:00:00

Jacques Barzun, a courtly French American scholar with a bracing knowledge of Western civilization who helped found the field of cultural history and in his 90s wrote the epic if improbable bestseller "From Dawn to Decadence," has died. He was 104....

A taste of Lyon, France

2012-09-28 09:00:00

Food? Art? History? It's all here in this slightly quirky city On that famous restaurant byway, Rue Merciere, servers were putting chairs on tabletops and sweeping up crumbs. I had arrived in this gourmand paradise far too late for dinner. Feeling...

PASSINGS: Jan Sawka

2012-08-12 00:00:00

Jan Sawka Poster artist and architect Jan Sawka, 65, a noted Polish American artist and architect whose designs included posters for theatrical productions and touring sets for the Grateful Dead, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack at his...

Fashion Diary: Fast forward to 2012

2012-01-08 00:00:00

Stealth wealth. Fashion gaming. Elsa Schiaparelli. Raf Simons. What else? Here's a list of stylish people, trends and ideas to pay attention to in 2012. Surrealism. Opening May 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibition...

IMAGE Wanton Ways

2012-04-01 16:39:30

Around Town: 'Mean Streets' pays tribute to Fellini film

2012-05-17 16:38:15

Ian Abercrombie dies at 77; actor played Elaine's boss on 'Seinfeld'

2012-01-30 00:00:00

Ian Abercrombie, 77, the British character actor who played Elaine's demanding boss, Mr. Pitt, on "Seinfeld," died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his friend Cathy Lind Hayes. He suffered complications of kidney failure and...

John Malkovich's message to the theater world on its special day

2012-03-09 16:33:33

Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano's leading ladies

2010-10-04 16:32:11

What if it were 'Mr. Dalloway'? Book covers revisited

2011-05-20 16:34:49

Opening May 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's exhibition "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" will explore the link between 1930s era Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and her modern-day counterpart Miuccia Prada.

2012-01-06 13:41:19

Artist-poet-writer-director Jean Cocteau s first film, the 1930 surreal short Blood of a Poet, was featured in LACMA s 1982 French film retrospective. -- Susan King

2009-07-28 14:54:47

Jean Cocteau 's painting at the Chapel of Saint-Blaise des Simples in the village of Milly-la-Foret near the Fontainebleau Forest.

2009-05-23 14:49:47