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

Have you ever gazed at Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting "The Starry Night" and felt like you could almost see the sky ...

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

A blockbuster exhibition in London examines the Dutch Post-Impressionist’s creative output between 1888 and 1890, which was one of the most productive periods of his career Julia Binswanger ...

Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" anchors an exhibition commemorating the birth of the artistic movement 150 years ago ...

Sebastian Smee, the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning critic ... hierarchy extended to even technical considerations: the Impressionists painted straight onto the canvas rather than ...

One of the most arresting works in the new Impressionism show at the National Gallery of Art isn’t by an impressionist. It’s Antonin Mercié’s Gloria Victis, a resplendent bronze modeled ...

In a room with yellow walls, three paintings are notably exhibited: two Sunflowers, one belonging to the National Gallery ...

Remember the climate protesters who threw soup at a Van Gogh? When activists use art as a canvas, does everyone understand ...

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 ...