WE all talk a great deal about influences, in relation to both the artists who give and those who receive them; tabulating them adds a cozy sense of continuity to the rather chaotic history of art.

Geelong Gallery director and CEO Humphrey Clegg As a result, we live in a heightened world of polarising domestic and ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou." (From "Impressionists on the Water" at the Peabody Essex Museum) A couple, dressed in what you might call their Sunday-outing best, stand on the grassy bank ...

Edgar Degas, "Dancers on a Bench" (c. 1898), pastel on tracing paper; lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council (photo © CSG CIC ...

Few exhibitions have been more mythologized than the one that opened in a Parisian photography studio on April 15, 1874. There, over the course of a month, the trajectory of art was altered, launching ...

Impressionism used to be discussed as a movement that turned its back on high art’s traditional subjects in order to give more attention to other matters. The Impressionists’ themes, landscape, still ...

One of the most arresting works in the new Impressionism show at the National Gallery of Art isn’t by an impressionist. It’s Antonin Mercié’s Gloria Victis, a resplendent bronze modeled after one from ...

Sterile sketches by Monet, Degas and Renoir make you grateful they mostly stuck to painting – but Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh’s empathy and emotion steal the show Impressionists on Paper is a bitty ...

The four grandes dames of the French Impressionist movement will be spotlighted in a major survey at the National Gallery of Ireland that opens today. “Women Impressionists” takes place at the 150th ...

On my way to see "Impressionists on the Water," which opens Saturday at the Legion of Honor, I began to wonder about Impressionism fatigue. Might this be the exhibition that finally demagnetizes the ...

French Impressionists at Eclipso. Photo Courtesy of Excurio. On Saturday, January 25th, this journalist had the chance to visit the “Tonight with the Impressionists — Paris 1874” virtual reality ...