‘Romantic and Progressive: Stalinist Impressionism in Painting of the Baltic States in the 1940s–1950s,’ installation view (photo courtesy of Kumu Art Museum of Estonia) TALLINN, Estonia — The history ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his classic study The Waning of the Middle Ages, described the transition ...

On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille ...

Alfred Sisley’s “The Loing at Saint-Mammès” will be among the paintings featured at the Crocker Art Museum. Courtesy of the Crocker Art Museum Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum is set to showcase “Monet ...

The Boston Book Festival’s Art History Keynote was packed this year, with all 300 seats of the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall filled and even more festival-goers hoping to hear the speech from the ...

Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...

An Impressionist masterpiece that birthed one of art history’s most important movements is making its US debut. Claude Monet completed his green-gray vision of the harbor at Le Havre in a single ...

In the 1970s, art history was being rewritten by a generation of young scholars, including TJ Clark and a host of other neo-Marxists, who argued that painting was more than just a means of arranging ...

While France was celebrating Monet and Renoir, a remarkable Impressionist school was flourishing across the Channel. Combining both homage and dissent, these artists forged their own path, adapting ...