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

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

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.

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

Families, we’re told, are complicated, and being a pillar of Modern art is no free pass. But how do Manet’s specific dramas inflect the work? Since “Olympia,” his boundary-smashing ...

Claude Monet may be the more popular and beloved artist, but Édouard Manet is surely the more pivotal figure in the history of modern art. Last year, he got a lot of attention in the monumental ...

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

When surveying the 300 images in MirrorMirror this is an impossible question to answer. From Manet to holographic vinyl trees ...

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 ...

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

I have never been one to marvel at the complexities of modern art. I have always been of the opinion that it does not require the same discipline and skill that traditional art, or to give a specific ...

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