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Yes, We Can-Can: How the Moulin Rouge Made Us Modern
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When the Moulin Rouge opens in Paris, in 1889—a faux windmill spinning over the entrance, a two-story elephant opening to reveal an orchestra inside—the world is changing quickly. The first film comes out that same day. Electric lights are enlivening the night. The old Victorian morals are being challenged, perhaps nowhere moreso than at this new bohemian cabaret where rich and poor are coming together around the high-kicking can-can and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is the absinthe-drinking artist-in-residence—a flash of freedom and romance that will resonate in the popular imagination long after the moment dissolves in war, crackdowns, and heartbreak. You can see one of Toulouse-Lautrec's best-known paintings, "At the Moulin Rouge," now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently on view at Mia: https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/at-the-moulin-rouge
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When the Moulin Rouge opens in Paris, in 1889—a faux windmill spinning over the entrance, a two-story elephant opening to reveal an orchestra inside—the world is changing quickly. The first film comes out that same day. Electric lights are enlivening the night. The old Victorian morals are being challenged, perhaps nowhere moreso than at this new bohemian cabaret where rich and poor are coming together around the high-kicking can-can and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is the absinthe-drinking artist-in-residence—a flash of freedom and romance that will resonate in the popular imagination long after the moment dissolves in war, crackdowns, and heartbreak. You can see one of Toulouse-Lautrec's best-known paintings, "At the Moulin Rouge," now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently on view at Mia: https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/at-the-moulin-rouge
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