Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance is too reel and too real. Maybe it’s because this is Black History Month that the complete Oscar lock-out of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths seems so wrong.

Much of this book is devoted to paintings by three celebrated French artists: Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) and François Boucher (1703-70). However, it brings to ...

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The city rat and the country rat, with a surtout, Jean Ouvrier after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1755–59. From Jean de la Fontaine, Fables choisies, mises en vers (Paris, 1755–59), 1:18. 84-B18675 Table with ...

In The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher, art historian and curator David Pullins masterfully interrogates the status of the image as an object in eighteenth-century French art. Have you ever ...

In Mike Leigh's new film, Hard Truths, Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a tour de force as Pansy, a woman consumed by rage and depression, who regularly lashes out at family and strangers. While the ...

NEW YORK – In “Hard Truths,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the best performance you may not have seen yet. “For me, it means a lot,” says the acting veteran, sipping green tea on a recent ...

Early in the new Mike Leigh film Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a ferocious monologue about the uselessness of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals. “It’s ...

It may be awards season, but for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, family always takes center stage. During a recent interview with USA TODAY, the Oscar-nominated actress shared a personal update after her ...

It never worked. You can see Jean-Baptiste Oudry's paintings of pineapples grown there – the ultimate status symbol. And you can see Louis XV's stuffed rhinoceros too; in life, the pampered ...

What do we do with the sad ones, the mad ones, the ones who seem to have been born carrying a grudge against the world? Easy enough to step around them when they’re ranting at the supermarket ...

The momentous feat was recorded by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, a French painter renowned for his still lifes. By the 1750s, hundreds of pineapples were being cultivated and their distinctive form ...