Travel a great distance to stand before a celebrated work of art? That's happened once or twice in history, right? Or a million times. Look no further than the Mona Lisa or The Last Supper or hundreds ...

Cast in the major exhibition “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” (through September 29 at the Art Institute of Chicago), certain paintings expose their undergarments, so to speak. The exhibit, ...

Edouard Manet’s “The Railway,” a magisterial canvas of 1873 that announces the painter’s mature career, thrusts us into the heart of the new Paris that had been envisioned at midcentury by Napoleon ...

A special guest is pulling into the Norton Simon Museum just in time for Christmas. Edouard Manet’s 1873 painting “The Railway” will take up temporary residence in the museum’s Impressionist Art Wing ...