A new look at French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte

Now showing at Chicago's Art Institute, an exhibition of works by Gustave Caillebotte offers a fresh perspective on a French ...
San Antonio Current

New McNay exhibit examines French artists’ defiance of censorship to skewer the powerful

Honoré Daumier’s 1834 lithograph Ne vous y frottez pas!! Liberté de la presse leaves no question where the multifaceted artist stood on the matter of press freedom. Credit: Courtesy Image / McNay Art ...
Artnet

French Artists Experience Less Commercial Success Than Their Peers, According to a New Report

In some ways, the report published November 28 by Le Quotidien de l’Art, came as no surprise. For decades French artists—defined as artists born in France or working there for the majority of their ...

‘John Singer Sargent. Dazzling Paris’ Is An Exceptional Exhibition Worth The Trip

One hundred years after American painter John Singer Sargent’s death, Paris's Orsay Museum opens a massive exhibit expected ...
The Atlantic

Practice and Patronage of French Art

MUCH has been said about the mission of art and the artist. Art has no mission; it is only one form by which the ideas of a race or a nation find expression at certain stages of intellectual progress.
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This French Village Inspired Artists for a Reason—And You’ll Understand Why the Moment You Arrive

This hilltop village, with its cobbled streets and picturesque views, seriously feels like you’re stepping into a fairytale, and the buildings and well-preserved ramparts are practically steeped in ...