Inside Lenny Kravitz’s Paris Townhouse – And The Story Behind That Basquiat

Harris – whose photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta – made a specialty of taking “portraits” in which the sitter does not appear, telling the story of a person by the rooms he or she occupies or the things they use daily. “I felt as if I had been training for this mome... See more

ne of those would be the overlapping Parisian milieu that each occupied, frequently bumping shoulders at salons at which one could find such members of the cultural elite as Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola and the painter Henri Fantin-Latour. Manet/Degas also shows how the two men would be among the few artists to remain and defend Paris during the

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Imagine showing Louis XIV your life. Almost everything would amaze him. He would offer you half of Gascony for your flat-screen television. Even driving a 20-year-old car would delight him. The Palace of Versailles consumed more water than the city of Paris, yet the cleanliness of your water supply would still astound him, as would your flushable t

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