Julius Meier-Graefe

Oh, That Weltschmerz! German Expressionism About Dark, Not Light

Artists, critics, art collectors and curators for whom the delights of French painting remain a stan  read more »

John Constable Liked Painting Landscape, But Looked to Sky

About the English landscape painter John Constable (1776-1837), whose work is currently to be seen i  read more »

The 'Later' Courbet, Master of Land, Sea, In Stunning Exhibit

Given his provincial origins, the untamed manners he sometimes affected, his appetite for political  read more »

Shock of the Old: El Greco Now Seen As First Modernist

Among the Old Masters of European painting whose works are deeply revered today, none has commanded  read more »

Manet/Velázquez : Brilliant Exhibit Crossing Pyrénées

It has long been recognized that 17th-century Spanish painting exerted a powerful, transforming infl  read more »

El Greco, Modern Augurer, Stirred Mobs to Battle

Hard as it may now be to comprehend, the art of the Spanishmaster who came to be known as El Greco (  read more »

Germans Had Beethoven, but Could They Paint?

It has long been one of the paradoxes of cultural life in the English-speaking world that while 19th  read more »

At Last, a Munch Show Gives Us Spooky Norway

Has there ever before been an exhibition devoted to the paintings of the Norwegian master Edvard Mun  read more »