The Boston Book Festival’s Art History Keynote was packed this year, with all 300 seats of the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall filled and even more festival-goers hoping to hear the speech from the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life. But while inspired by nature, light, and the energy of modernity, the Impressionists ...

In Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee tells the story of the cultural fallout of this military misadventure. Smee focuses on the ...

Edouard Manet (c1870)and his painting, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (1872) - Getty The triumph of a trend commonly labelled “Impressionism” was a pivotal moment in the history of art.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sebastian Smee is the art critic at The Boston Globe and won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011. He is the author of six books and has ...

Freud at Work is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated - and most private - artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with ...

The French master was looking back to Giotto, and over his shoulder at Picasso, when he painted this radical masterpiece, now on view in St. Louis. A show at the National Gallery reveals how European ...

Song Dynasty Emperor Huizong practically defined the canon of classical Chinese painting, but his reign was in other ways disastrous.

In 1971, Philip Guston was so mad at Richard Nixon that he turned out a brilliant sequence of political cartoons.

Koons effected in art what President Trump effected in politics: He choreographed a total collapse of the distinctions between achievement, fame, wealth, taste and success.