Families, we’re told, are complicated, and being a pillar of Modern art is no free pass. But how do Manet’s specific dramas inflect the work? Since “Olympia,” his boundary-smashing ...
For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...
Sebastian Smee delivered the Art History keynote at the Boston Book Festival, speaking on impressionism and its broader ...
In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...
When surveying the 300 images in MirrorMirror this is an impossible question to answer. From Manet to holographic vinyl trees ...
Emin accomplishes what any great artist must do — turn the sacrificing of privacy into the spark of human connectivity.
It’s tough being a reporter in Cambodia, whose government frowns on independent journalism that questions authority. Veteran ...
Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on ...
On Oct. 30 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a special appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian Smee, art critic ...
More than one involves a video work featuring music, the medium that remains the best trigger. But some people claim to get chills reliably from specific painters or works they have a deep ...
Namedropping is ostensibly about status; a wall label informs us, in inimitable MONA-style, that “The bloke who owns Mona (let’s just call him David Walsh, because that’s his name) says what he wants ...