An extract from a new book by Sebastian Smee—about the Impressionists during the Siege of Paris and Paris Commune—brings to ...

During the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war, many artists fled to other French cities or London. However, ...

“Manet, Monet,” says a museum visitor to her companion in a famous New Yorker cartoon. “I hear both are correct.” Claude Monet may be the more popular and beloved artist, but Édouard ...

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

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

Leon Paroissien, who died last week, was one of the great enablers of Australian art. He imagined a better future, then made ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

More than one involves a video work featuring music, the medium that remains the best trigger. But some people claim to get ...

Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build ...

Emin accomplishes what any great artist must do — turn the sacrificing of privacy into the spark of human connectivity.