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

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 ...

Born in 1832, Edouard Manet was an upper-class Parisian painter who is also known as the father of modernism. The exhibit ...

“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 ...

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

Leon Paroissien, who died last week, was one of the great enablers of Australian art. He imagined a better future, then made ...

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.

But it is no less real for that. And art is one of the methods invented by humans to record and rekindle it. Manet and ...

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

She draws influence from artists like Édouard Manet, Jacques Rivette, Mary Cassatt, Karen Kilmnik, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Agnes Varda.

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

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