How to Look at Paul Gauguin
He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really?
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Albert Barnes believed in the liberating power of art—but you had to look at it his way.
Caroline Gutman / The New York Times / Redux The Exhibit That Will Change How You See Impressionism
The National Gallery’s “Paris 1874” explores the movement’s dark origins.
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem
How Black artists made modernism their own
Courtesy of the Met / © 2024 Heirs of Aaron Douglas / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY The Disorienting Beauty of ‘Africa & Byzantium’
A landmark exhibition offers a new history of art.
Courtesy of the Met Vermeer’s Revelations
The artist left behind few clues about his life or intentions, but the paintings themselves teach the viewer new ways to see.
National Gallery of Art, Widener Collection The Melville of American Painting
In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, once seen as the oracle of the nation’s innocence, is recast as a poet of conflict.
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