The Clark Art Institute exhibit spotlights French prints, photos and drawings from 1840–70 steeped in the imaginary and ...

An Ipsos-BVA survey for Beaux Arts Magazine, released on Thursday, reveals the public's taste for contemporary art but a ...

Before Modernism blew everybody out of the tree, Hector Giacomelli specialized in birds. Picasso's father, José Ruiz y Blasco, refined that specialization. He painted only pigeons. If you were a ...

Typically, when experts think of drawings from this period, the male nude is the most familiar image, says Clark-Getty Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin, who spent time in Paris working alongside the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — There’s always something new to learn about the oldest and most familiar stories in the history of art. That’s especially true of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s impressive new ...

In some ways, the report published November 28 by Le Quotidien de l’Art, came as no surprise. For decades French artists—defined as artists born in France or working there for the majority of their ...

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy, “Aeneas and Companions in Latium” (circa 1790-1793) black ink and wash with white gouache highlights on brown paper (21.4 x 16.3 cm) PARIS — Over the course of history, ...

Art Institute trustee Carol Horvitz and her husband, Jeffrey Horvitz, have donated nearly 2,000 drawings, 200 paintings, and 50 sculptures to the Art Institute of Chicago, the museum announced Tuesday ...

Curator Emerson Bowyer says the gift will help the museum reframe its presentation of early modern French art. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Can you explain the importance of this gift in ...

Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...

MUCH has been said about the mission of art and the artist. Art has no mission; it is only one form by which the ideas of a race or a nation find expression at certain stages of intellectual progress.