The Musée d’Orsay is partnering with 12 museums around France in a project that uses impressionist art to highlight climate change – works that collectively tell the story of human enterprise at the ...

THE HEADLINES PROTEST/ART. Gustave Courbet's The Origin of the World (1866) and other artworks were tagged with the red-painted words, "MeToo," and an embroidered art piece by Annette Messager was ...

courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the women depicted in Young Ladies of the Village (1851–52). courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Gustave ...

The background of Self-portrait with Black Dog (Gustave Courbet, early 1840s) is painted with the brightest tones and largely in the most detail. The artist and dog are mostly shown using darker ...

Over spring break, I had the opportunity to visit an array of art museums throughout the Washington D.C. area. One of my more ...

A new dual-language translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil offers English readers the best way of appreciating the poet who helped invent modernity.