An Impressionistic Outlier
/Lesser-known - and perhaps just plain lesser? - French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte gets his first major American retrospective.
Read MoreCaved-in and Chopfallen
/The brutal realities of the urban landscape are both indicted and illuminated in the paintings of Jerome Witkin. Brett Busang examines the life and work of this inner city Canaletto.
Read MoreOne Encounter: John Koch's Figure on a Bed
/In his painting "Figure on a Bed," John Koch immortalizes the kind of private moment that's usually lost in an instant - Brett Busang muses on one arresting piece of art.
Read MoreThe Art of Socialist America
/The Works Progress Administration did more than set thousand of Americans to building bridges and roads in the 1930s; it also fostered art, as an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Art Gallery lavishly illustrates.
Read MoreAprès moi, le déluge
/Charles Marville’s extraordinary photographs of 19th-century Paris are like a cautionary tale, urging us to preserve the best of what is left in our own cities.
Read MoreI Am Almost a Camera
/As the Smithsonian's new exhibit confirms, Richard Estes is the preeminent photo-realist painter of our time or--most likely--of any time. But to what extent is photo-realism an art worth practicing? And what does it do?
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