People get upset when it’s not on view,” said Stephanie L. Herdrich, curator of American painting and drawing at the Met.

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

The show at New York’s Met covers Sargent’s journey to becoming the hottest portrait painter in Paris, and includes his ...

Exploring the late pontiff’s deep connection to and impact on visual culture, plus why Turner’s work continues to resonate so ...

Seaweed has been inspiring artists for an age and then some, from Shibata Zeshin in 1800’s Tokyo to John Singer Sargent in ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

The American Impressionism movement began in the late 19th to the early 20th century, offering an American point of view on ...

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in collaboration with Paris's Musée d'Orsay, is dedicating until August 3 to American ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities says the project will "honor the statesmen, visionaries, and innovators who shaped ...