Surrealist writer, artist and filmmaker Jean Cocteau first showed up on my radar in 2009 while I was researching a book about eccentric French decorator and antiquaire Madeleine Castaing. Her radical ...

The Jean Cocteau Severin Wunderman Collection Museum in Menton, France, which opened its doors onto views of the Côte d'Azur over the weekend, is a vast, bleached, stone structure eight years in the ...

In 1957 the French banker Louis Martinon asked artist and poet Jean Cocteau to lend his illustrious drawing style to a church he wanted to build in the small village Fréjus in the Côte d'Azur. Fresh ...

It is not altogether surprising to learn that the dominant feeling of Cocteau’s life was unhappiness, at least as it unfolds in Claude Arnaud’s massive biography. His Cocteau is a vain, self-seeking, ...

The new exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes drawings of nude men and a large-scale work done in pencil, chalk, crayon and blood. By Hilarie M. Sheets A 1949 photograph of Jean ...

In between the stark ravishment of 1946’s “Beauty and the Beast” and 1950’s edgy enchantment “Orpheus,” France’s art-hyphenate master Jean Cocteau filmed an adaptation of his ‘30s play “Les Parents ...

The 50th anniversary of the death of Jean Cocteau, one of the most versatile figures in the history of the arts in France, will be observed on October 11. Cocteau saw himself as basically a poet, but ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1615): Clever that Berenice Abbot’s 1927 photo of Jean Cocteau should have been included in the show called “Female Gaze II” now at Cheim & Read gallery in New York. Of course it does ...

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It wasn’t only through his films, or even through his advocacy on behalf of the art of the cinema, that Jean Cocteau was a crucial influence on the French New Wave. His diary of the making of “Beauty ...