Revisiting the genius of Toulouse-Lautrec at Chrysler exhibit

Few artworks have announced the arrival of a new talent so spectacularly as the eye-popping poster that introduced Paris to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Pasted up all over the city in December 1891, some 3,000 copies of this startlingly large, wildly original view of the notorious Moulin Rouge cabaret burst onto the streets all at once, seizing the attention of passers-by with a sight “so new and so completely unexpected that it was immediately noticed,” late-1800s French cultural historian Ernest Maindron observed.

Kardashian West robbery suspects detained in France

OCTOBER 02: Kim Kardashian attends the Givenchy show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on October 2, 2016 in Paris, France. French police have detained 16 people for questioning over the armed robbery of Kim Kardashian West in Paris last October, a spokesman for the Paris Prosecutor has told CNN.