Last Days of Summer in Art
The end of summer is approaching and these last days of sunshine create a kind of melancholic feeling. You would probably like to reflect on the past...
Michel Rutten 28 August 2025
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Édouard Manet in 10 Paintings: Scandal, Society, and the Spark of Modern Art
From the clatter of Parisian cafés to the hushed drama of the Salon, Édouard Manet was at the epicenter of 19th-century art’s most daring...
Joanna Kaszubowska 25 August 2025
César Baldaccini: Master of Compression
César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, was a prominent French sculptor of the 1960s. He created large sculptures formed by compressing...
Caroline Galambosova 21 August 2025
Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris: Modern, Middle Class, and Masculine
Some of Gustave Caillebotte’s most famous paintings show the Parisian boulevards with an Impressionist aura. Yet what exactly he chose to...
Catriona Miller 20 August 2025
Gustave Caillebotte Painting His (Male) World at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago is the last of three institutions to be hosting a major monographic exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894). It...
Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 20 August 2025
Gustave Caillebotte in 10 Paintings: A Different Impression
Think Impressionism, and Gustave Caillebotte is not the first name that springs to mind. Yet he helped organize the Impressionist exhibitions, he...
Catriona Miller 20 August 2025
Paris Through the Lens of Early Photographers
Paris is a centuries-old city which witnessed many ground-breaking moments. One of them was the first photograph of a living human being ever taken!...
Magda Michalska 19 August 2025
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: With Love Through Art
If two people are born on precisely the same day, they must be destined to meet. He was Bulgarian, she was French. They met when he was called in to...
Magda Michalska 18 August 2025
Famous Painters and Their Children
On June 1st, 1925, the World Conference for the Well-Being of Children held in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International...
Magda Michalska 12 August 2025
Painter’s Biggest Fear: The Blindness of Claude Monet
The eyes of an artist put to the service of art can reveal to us an unspeakable world that is very present around us. But what does this world, this...
Christopher Michaut 11 August 2025
Masterpiece Story: Still Life by Henri Fantin-Latour
The greatest happiness can be found in the simple pleasures of daily life. Such simplicities could include the taste of fresh fruit, the smell of...
James W Singer 3 August 2025
