The woman, holding a slender black smoking pipe, has much higher nalin than her companion, accentuating the height ...

The Network murder mystery “The Artist” is set in the Gilded Age; while it’s a murder-mystery on the surface, it does claim ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. One of the many ...

Much more than other Impressionists, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) has a divided reputation. His fans stress his position as the oldest among them, a networker who brought many of them together and ...

On November 17, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) hosted a lovely gathering for its high-level donors and special guests to celebrate and enjoy the current exhibits, The Impressionist Revolution: ...

From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

Our beloved Monets are currently having an extended family reunion at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. One of the prized possessions in the vast SBMA permanent collection is Claude Monet’s “Villas in ...

Twenty years ago, Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers published “Impressionist Quartet,” an interlocking biography exploring the “intimate genius” of painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and Edgar ...

The 19th-century artist Camille Pissarro inspired others who became far more famous than he was, but many admirers say he was equally accomplished. An upcoming exhibition makes the case. By Michael ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a ...