For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

Edouard Manet (c1870)and his painting, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (1872) - Getty The triumph of a trend commonly labelled “Impressionism” was a pivotal moment in the history of art.

The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.

Sebastian Smee delivered the Art History keynote at the Boston Book Festival, speaking on impressionism and its broader ...

More than one involves a video work featuring music, the medium that remains the best trigger. But some people claim to get chills reliably from specific painters or works they have a deep ...

On Oct. 30 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a special appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian Smee, art critic ...

OPINION: Modern art is misunderstood. From Manet’s revolutionary risks to solid red canvases and eerie installations, the ...

The exhibit will open in June and comprise more than 100 paintings by Impressionist masters Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste ...

The LSU Museum of Art has a new exhibit that highlights a new understanding of art and what inspires artists to create. It ...

I have never been one to marvel at the complexities of modern art. I have always been of the opinion that it does not require the same discipline and skill that traditional art, or to give a specific ...

Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on ...

is unmistakably Impressionist; Manet, on the other hand, can’t be easily pigeonholed. Following his friend Charles Baudelaire’s rallying cry for art to depict realities of modern life ...