Canvas & Consequence

The Lesbian Lovers Who Invented Modern Art (While Everyone Watched)

Episode Summary

Meet Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the power couple whose Paris salon literally created the art world as we know it. While hosting legendary Saturday nights that launched Picasso, Matisse, and Hemingway, they were also collecting masterpieces for pennies and basically inventing art criticism—all while being openly gay in 1920s Paris.