The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.

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

Claude Monet, one of the most famous French painters, and the ‘Father of Impressionism’. Has many masterpieces to his name.

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

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

Walk into any supermarket and you can usually buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might ...

These events and their impact on French painters are detailed in the art critic Sebastian Smee’s absorbing new book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism. His main focus is ...

This painting is not just evidence to Monet’s expertise in Impressionism but is also a painting close to his heart as his gardens were his muse for the longest time. Another beautiful Impression ...

This multimedia spectacle brings the iconic French painter’s impressionist masterpieces ... with the same organizers bringing ...