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

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive ...

"The Impressionist Moment" celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first exhibition of Impressionist painting.

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from tomes on how society shaped Impressionism to a deep dive into how the ...

A National Gallery of Art curator told JNS that it is “quite striking” that the only painting in the 1874 Impressionism show ...

The Canadian painter William Brymner (1855-1925) arrived in Paris in 1878, four years after the First Impressionist Exhibition. Still, he was more interested in the classical French academic ...

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

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

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 ...

First staged at the Musée d’Orsay, the show at Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art seeks to recreate the first ...

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