What often gets called cobblestones on old Philadelphia streets are actually Belgian blocks. But no, the neat rectangles cut so they can fit tightly together did not come from Belgium. They came from ...

Here are nine shows not to miss around France, beyond the Musée d’Orsay’s blockbuster “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism,” which we’ve covered separately and highly recommend. The unofficial prequel ...

Much more than other Impressionists, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) has a divided reputation. His fans stress his position as the oldest among them, a networker who brought many of them together and ...

In April 1874, 150 years ago, the Impressionists held their first exhibition together in the studio of Felix Nadar on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. It was a less-than-complimentary review by ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Is Impressionism played out? As a cash cow, maybe. The movement that launched a billion-dollar industry of calendars, coffee mugs, tote bags, posters and, more recently, ...

Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery (photo taken by Dornac, c. 1910) (all images courtesy the National Gallery, London) LONDON — Impressionism is easily one of, if not the most, accessible ...

THE WORLD was not always an arena of Claude Monet superfans. “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape,” sneered Louis Leroy, an art critic, when describing Monet’s ...

"Cassirer: Breakthrough of Impressionism" is on view at Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie.

I first read the letters Édouard Manet wrote to his family in the winter of 1870-1871 on a dead summer afternoon in an air-conditioned college library in Sydney. I was 19, studying art history. I was ...

The movement’s blithe beauty remains the surest of bets for museums nearly a century and a half after it arrived on American shores. WORCESTER – Earlier this spring, the Worcester Art Museum opened ...

Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920 (Exhibition) (2015-2016 : Philadelphia, Pa.; Norfolk, Va.; Winston-Salem, N.C.) "This book is published in conjunction with ...