In his forthcoming book, The Art of Rivalry, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee turns our attention to four key relationships in the history of Modern art, and he digs deep. His survey ...

The Boston Book Festival’s Art History Keynote was packed this year, with all 300 seats of the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall filled and even more festival-goers hoping to hear the speech from the ...

Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee joined Margery Eagan and Jared Bowen to discuss his new book, The Art of Rivalry. Smee tells the story of four pairs of artists—Manet ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee tells the story of the cultural fallout of this military misadventure. Smee focuses on the ...

You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life. But while inspired by nature, light, and the energy of modernity, the Impressionists ...