Two seemingly unrelated art exhibits opened mere blocks from one another in Washington, D.C., this September, each widening the perspectives included in social and ecclesial narratives. The National ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth in 1874, when 31 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot, staged an exhibition that shocked Paris. Monet’s ...

The 19th-century painter was in Spain when she painted this early gem, now in Philadelphia Balconies are like stages. For painters, they provide a ready-made tableau. They’re places where people ...

Shimmering Impressionist canvases by Monet and Renoir, plus Van Gogh, Gauguin and more. The late-1800s saw old notions of beauty challenged by revolutionary artists. We enjoy pioneering Impressionist ...

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...

Familiar you may be with the commonplace colour violet (including all the different shades and ways of calling it — purple, ...