“Love, Cecil” captures the essence and aesthetics of Cecil Beaton’s life; it opens at the Nuart on Friday, July 20. A Renaissance man of the 20th century, he was a costume designer, writer, ...

A detail from Cecil Beaton’s Worldly Colour (Charles James evening dresses), 1948 - The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive Curiously, there has never been a major exhibition dedicated to Cecil Beaton’s ...

For the first time, the diaries of photographer and designer Sir Cecil Beaton come to the stage to accompany his most iconic images of everyone from film stars like Marilyn Monroe to political figures ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Museum of Art just purchased a flower tower of power. It’s an elaborate, 17th-century Dutch “Flower Pyramid,” made in tin-glazed earthenware. Blue-and-white pottery ...

Cecil Beaton was a fashion, portrait and war photographer, a diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer. He is one of the most celebrated portrait ...

“He’s a total self-creation,” Truman Capote says of Cecil Beaton in an archival clip featured in Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s Love, Cecil. This documentary portrait offers a glamorous, if not terribly ...

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PHOTOBIOGRAPHY (255 pp.)—Cecil Beafon—Doubleday ($6). Little Cecil Beaton, aged three, hopped in bed with his “Mummie” one fine English morning and ran his eye over the day’s mail that lay scattered ...