Jan Ravens is one of the UK'' most celebrated impressionists and comedians. She first discovered comedy at Cambridge University's Footlights society, where she made history as the first female ...
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 ...
Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance behind the beauty, and the schmaltz? By Jason Farago The haystacks have been ...
Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...
Revolution was in the plein air. During the reign of Napoleon III, the Second French Empire had colonized extensively abroad and modernized at home, with the construction of Paris’ boulevards and the ...
“Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” a gorgeous show of roughly 130 works at the National Gallery of Art organized by its curators Mary Morton and Kimberly A. Jones, marks the 150th anniversary of ...
On Saturday, January 25th, this journalist had the chance to visit the “Tonight with the Impressionists — Paris 1874” virtual reality expedition at Eclipso in Manhattan. French Impressionists at ...