Women were the common subject for Impressionist painters like Degas, Renoir and Morisot, but Gustave Caillebotte chiefly painted men. The provocative Getty exhibition analyzes representations of ...

A violin made in 1714 by the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari sold for $11.3 million at an auction in New York on Friday, short of estimates that would have made it the most expensive ...

The violin has become the third most expensive musical instrument ever sold at auction. It was made 300 years ago. https://p.dw.com/p/4qCES The Joachim-Ma ...

Travel back in time to the 1874 Impressionist Exhibition in Paris Step into iconic scenes from paintings by Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Degas, and more Experience a new immersive virtual reality ...

Now, 150 years later, a new virtual reality experience allows New Yorkers to travel back in time to this moment when Impressionism was born. Untapped New York Members get an exclusive 15% discount ...

Today, Impressionism is arguably art lovers’ most beloved painting style. Yet, it is derided by contemporaneous art critics and art historians who label it “eye candy art,” without having any ...

It was the birth of what came to be known as Impressionism, a title taken (mockingly, in fact) from a painting of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre by one of the company, the great Claude Monet.

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.

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 ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Famously, of course, Impressionism was not greeted with love at the outset. In 1874, the first Impressionist exhibition was derided ...

In the Keynote, delivered on Oct. 26, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee discussed his book, “Paris in Ruins,” which tells the stories of three great Impressionist painters ...

How about some violin? Sure, it's most often considered an orchestral instrument, and doesn't exactly emit the gritty, sexy type of sound rock bands are typically looking for. But the violin is ...