And then on the Realism side, we had Gustave Courbet and Jean-Francois Millet. Courbet’s painting ‘The Stone Breakers’ is undoubtedly one of the most famous Realist paintings, and Millet’s ...

Gustave Courbet's infamous nude painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) was targeted over the weekend by protesters who tagged it with the words "Me Too." The 1886 painting is on ...

In his new book, Claude Schopp explains how a chance discovery led him to identify the woman in the painting Scandal has never been far from Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde, one of the most ...

Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective is a collection of essays that came out of a symposium held at Princeton University dedicated to the Princeton University Art Museum’s ...

TIME’s editor-in-chief on why the Silence Breakers are the Person of the Year It became a hashtag, a movement, a reckoning. But it began, as great social change nearly always does, with ...

Gustave Courbet with his famous painting 'Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine (été)' is the French guest at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, visiting from the Petit Palais, Musée des ...

Through this maelstrom, Smee, a Pulitzer-winning art critic, traces the stories of several engaging personalities: Gustave Courbet, the scandalous realist painter naively committed to revolution ...

I called Jafar Alam, former head of the Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association. He denied that profit margins were that high. “It varies by ship and depends on many factors, such as the current ...

Watch Look But Don't Touch The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch 5 min Watch the programme An author once described this work as a portrait of a woman done by a painter who had forgotten ...

The Stone, led by artistic director John Zorn, serves as a home and community for experimental and avant-garde artists at the College of Performing Arts’ Glassbox Theater. A composer, arranger, ...

Of all of Newport's famous homes, The Breakers mansion is the cream of the summer cottage crop. Commissioned in 1893 by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers is a Renaissance-style ...

Fruits of Labour posits that any depiction of a landscape is primarily a depiction of labour.