A woman plays a role she wrote herself, in a film she directed, a film that is based on the life of a woman she does not know, in whom she recognizes herself. Watching this film, a generation after it ...

New York City-based influencer Emma Rose Léger is engaged, as she announced to her social media followers on May 7 As seen in her announcement post, her fiancé Alex Pines popped the question while ...

It’s an alien and hypnotic world revealed by the camera as it rises up the Eiffel Tower. Made in 1900 by Thomas Edison (with James White), the short film that greets visitors to the Philadelphia ...

The French artist Fernand Léger’s name might not be the first that comes to mind when thinking about Cubists or Dadaists, yet he was a central figure in exploring the boundaries of these movements ...

A small town in northwestern France is getting a $1.5 million museum dedicated to Fernand Léger, the giant of Cubist abstraction, and one of his earliest friends, the lesser-known painter André Mare.

Hervé Léger never intended a life in fashion. He wanted to be a sculptor, and endured a year studying at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris before he fled education to get his hands directly on ...

A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life. Fernand Léger, “La Noce” (1911–12), oOil on ...

The majority of artists who saw active service in the First World War responded to it – artistically speaking – with a mixture of shock, pity and horror. One thinks of Henry Tonks’s portraits of ...