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 ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his classic study The Waning of the Middle Ages, described the transition ...
In a recent recital in the auditorium of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, violinist Marina Chiche plucked at her instrument with a flurry and tempo that echoed the brisk brushstrokes in the blockbuster ...
Join Caroline Shields, Curator, European Art, AGO and Stephan Jost, Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO, AGO, in conversation about the Impressionist movement. Take a fresh look at these ...