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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is little wonder that an art movement like Impressionism, popular for capturing the elusive immediacy of everyday life, would be drawn to drawing. Works on paper, historically relegated to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Impressionism is probably the most recognized artwork around the world. It's hard to think of another type of art that is so collectively popular, so beloved, so familiar. If I say the word ...

In the wake of reaching over 5 million tickets sold to Immersive Van Gogh and the opening of Immersive Frida Kahlo to tremendous acclaim in eight cities, Lighthouse Immersive is shifting its focus to ...

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.

BENNINGTON — On view at the Bennington Museum from Saturday through June 17, the “Three Vermont Impressionists” exhibition features the work of three artists who painted Vermont landscapes in an ...