This month, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art inaugurates a suite of state-of-the-art galleries renovated to showcase the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art, a major gift to the institution. This trove of 29 works by Bonnard, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, and many of their equally celebrated contemporaries nearly doubled the museum’s holdings […]

Among Marie-Antoinette’s most cherished belongings was her collection of Japanese lacquerware, the core of which was bequeathed to her by her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Some of these exquisite objects, once reserved for the eyes of visitors to the opulent private salon known as the cabinet doré, are now on view in A Queen’s Treasure from Versailles: […]

The Art Museum at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is pleased to present Midnight in Paris & New York: Scenes from the 1890s-1930s, William Glackens and His Contemporaries from February 4 through October 18, 2018. Featuring drawings, paintings and photographs by American and European artists such as Eugène Atget, Brassai, William Glackens, André Kertesz, […]

In the 19th century, France experienced a horticultural boom that transformed lands both public and private. Various royal properties became parks, and Baron Haussmann’s grand modernization of Paris greatly increased its green spaces, which became an integral part of urban life. At the same time, ships were bringing in all sorts of exotic plants from […]

A consistent theme in Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s 50-year career — and in his life — has been the blurring of lines. Born in Paris in 1947 to a French Catholic mother and a Polish Jewish father, he grew up in London and made a name for himself there in the 1970s by merging performance and […]

The palace of Versailles and its gardens have attracted travelers ever since it was transformed under the direction of the Sun King, Louis XIV, from a simple hunting lodge into one of the most magnificent and public courts of Europe. French and foreign travelers, including royalty, ambassadors, artists, musicians, writers, scientists, grand tourists, and day-trippers, […]

The Jewish Museum presents an exhibition of some 30 paintings by the artist Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), the Expressionist known for his gestural and densely painted canvases. Chaim Soutine: Flesh highlights the unique visual conceptions and painterly energy that the artist brought to the tradition of still-life. Soutine’s remarkable paintings depicting hanging fowl, beef carcasses, and […]

Located about 40 miles southeast of Paris, the vast Forest of Fontainebleau became a hub of experimentation in landscape art during the first half of the 19th century, with an emphasis on the plein air practices that would later become one of the hallmarks of Impressionism. The village of Barbizon, at the edge of the […]

Located north of Copenhagen, the Ordrupgaard Museum is known for its fine collection of 19th- and early 20th-century French and Danish art. Seventy-six of these masterpieces are on view in Impressionist Treasures: The Ordrupgaard Collection, which both celebrates the movement and places it in its art- historical context. In addition to paintings by Renoir, Monet, […]

Storytelling: French Art from the Horvitz Collection presents 60 drawings and etchings for book illustration, as well as 10 paintings to round out the show. Executed between the 16th and 19th centuries, the works vary widely in style and subject matter, from religious and biblical imagery to more light- hearted genre scenes. Viewers have a chance […]

Paris was the epicenter of art during the latter half of the nineteenth century, luring artists from around the world with its academies, museums, salons, and galleries. Despite the city’s cosmopolitanism and its cultural stature, Parisian society remained strikingly conservative, particularly with respect to gender. Nonetheless, many women painters chose to work and study in […]

Designed to delight and surprise, the treasures created by the firm of Carl Fabergé have inspired admiration and intrigue for over a century, both for their remarkable craftsmanship and the fascinating histories that surround them. Now, a special exhibition at the Hillwood Estate, Museum & Garden in Washington, D.C. will unveil new discoveries relating to […]

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec City, Canada), the Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, PA), the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX), and the Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France) announced the internationally touring exhibition dedicated to one of the revolutionary artists of the French Impressionist movement, Berthe Morisot (1841–1895). Co-organized by the four institutions, Berthe Morisot, […]

For more than five decades, the conceptual artist Daniel Buren has been using his signature 8.7-centimeter-wide vertical stripes to explore such ambitious topics as what art really is and how we perceive it. Central to this inquiry is his fascination with the interplay between works of art and their environment. He has melded the two […]

Internationally-renowned French artist JR will launch an exhibition at Galerie Perrotin‘s New York space. Entitled Horizontal, the extensive showcase will ostensibly display new mixed-media works, photographic caricatures, and large-scale installations centering upon his signature wheatpaste posters and blown-out portraits. Accompanying the show is an intervention by JR on the gallery’s rooftop at 130 Orchard Street: […]

French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault offers a chance to view some 40 late-19th-century masterworks that are rarely exhibited due to their fragility. The high concentration of pure pigment powder that lends pastels their distinctive velvety texture and luminous, blendable colors has a downside: the particles remain loose on the surface, leaving the work vulnerable […]

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was the most sought-after portraitist of his generation on both sides of the Atlantic, creating powerful, vibrant likenesses of his sitters. Best known for his portraits, Sargent nevertheless excelled in a variety of genres, including landscapes, watercolors, and murals. Born in Florence to American parents and trained in Paris, he lived his […]