This course surveys the artists and artistic movements associated with impressionism and Post-Impressionism in France. The course will begin with an examination of the arts just prior to the last ...

Political violence tore France apart. A group of painters hoped a radical visual language could patch life back together.

Throughout history, art has been a reflection of society, culture, and the human experience. Famous painters, through their ...

When the young Virginia Stephen first began to join in discussions with her brother Thoby Stephen's friends who were just down from Cambridge and making new lives in London - people such as Clive Bell ...

Visitors to the National Gallery of Art’s marquee exhibition, “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” encounter two very ...

The swirling colors and flowing brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night have secured the painting (and its artist) a ...

When does a watch become "art"? ✓ Can recycled plastic really be elegant? ✓ Read how the new Oris Aquis Upcycle watches defy ...

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive portraits between the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book on zoning in on ...

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian ...