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

"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 ...

The work is one of 130 in “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” a sumptuous show of the capital city’s splendors, born, as ...

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive portraits between the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

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

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

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

On Sunday, Sept. 15, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation between Mary Morton, Head of the Department of French ...

A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book on zoning in on ...

In this art, typically, black is not used in the artist’s palette. And yet, there is an aspect to Impressionism that is dark, and that darkness is the preoccupation of this book. Prussian troops ...

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian ...