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

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

With portraits the artist made of the people closest to him, the exhibition tunes into the details of his private life In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s ...

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

The most recent special exhibit hosted by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, “Manet: A Model Family,” tells the story of ...

À l’occasion de l’année de l’impressionnisme, la Galerie civique d’art moderne et contemporain de Turin (GAM) vient ...

“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 ...

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

In 1873 when this painting was created by the Realist master Édouard Manet, the Gare Saint–Lazare was the largest and busiest train station in Paris.

Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on ...