Few exhibitions have been more mythologized than the one that opened in a Parisian photography studio on April 15, 1874. There, over the course of a month, the trajectory of art was altered, launching ...

Impressionists broke the mold by holding their own exhibition outside the official Paris Salon and the art world was changed ...

They originated those starving artist shows 150 years ago. The critics hated their paintings, and for years nobody bought them. But today, those same canvases fetch multimillions, and Auguste Renoir, ...

Does the world need another show of Impressionist or Postimpressionist paintings? A pretty good case can be made that the answer is no. But “Impressionists on the Water,” at the Legion of Honor Museum ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou." (From "Impressionists on the Water" at the Peabody Essex Museum) A couple, dressed in what you might call their Sunday-outing best, stand on the grassy bank ...

A stunning art collection is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The collection is from a promoter of iconic impressionists. Popular French impressionists Monet, and others may not have ...

Normandy's beaches attracted 19th-century French landscape painter Boudin, the realist painter Courbet and Impressionist painter Monet - Getty It is exactly 150 years since a group of painters on the ...

WE all talk a great deal about influences, in relation to both the artists who give and those who receive them; tabulating them adds a cozy sense of continuity to the rather chaotic history of art.

Edgar Degas, "Dancers on a Bench" (c. 1898), pastel on tracing paper; lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council (photo © CSG CIC ...

Your favorite art poster just turned 152. Discover the origin story of the movement that the critics tried to kill.

SKILLFUL popularizers don't always get a place of honor at literature's table, but they should. They bridge the divide between scholars and general readers, harvesting the work of experts and whipping ...