The enigmatic, influential benefactor of the arts comes home to the temple of modernism he once shunned

Artists, particularly in theater, are still plagued by the slur “Gay Commie Jew.” But how did it come about?

In the new biography René Blum and the Ballets Russes: In Search of Lost Life, the early 20th-century impresario—who died at Auschwitz and symbolizes the tragedy of French Jewry—remains a riddle