After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ,”Sargent and Paris,” ...

I first encountered the artist’s work at an exhibition in Stockholm, where I was struck by one of her self-portraits; Schjerfbeck depicts herself so unflinchingly. It is unclear in the painting ...

Art The Metropolitan Museum Shrouded a Mark Chagall Painting to Draw Attention to World Refugee Day The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: “What would the Met’s walls look like if there ...

Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 577 ...

In 2022, the heirs of John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) made a major donation spread across seven museums in the U.S. and the U.K. These works were not by the famed Gilded Age society portraitist, but ...

This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s highly anticipated “Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300–1350” will trace how an Italian city served as the foundation of a continent-wide artistic rebirth. The ...

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After a two-year break, one of the world’s most scandalous paintings is finally back on show in its place in New York. But behind the portrait’s return lies a story of public backlash, ruined ...