Lessons from the past continue to influence and inspire today’s globalized art world. By Beatriz Milhazes Beatriz Milhazes is a Brazilian artist. This personal reflection is part of a series called ...

Follow the feet as you make your way through the M.H. de Young Museum's grand exhibition, "Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musée d'Orsay," which opens Saturday. Not fellow visitors' feet ...

On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

THE WORLD was not always an arena of Claude Monet superfans. “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape,” sneered Louis Leroy, an art critic, when describing Monet’s ...

Painters like Monet, Degas and Renoir are the headliners of Impressionism, but they aren't the only ones who shaped the pivotal movement. "Rebels with a Cause: American Impressionist Women from the ...