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Stories behind the art
All stories →The lives, rumors, and heartbreaks inside the paintings — told like someone who can’t wait to show you.
Mary Cassatt, The Independent: The Musée d’Orsay’s Centenary Retrospective
A hundred years after her death, the American who chose Paris gets the full Orsay treatment, told through the one word she lived by.
Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago’s first major Cassatt show in a quarter century skips the version of her you already know, and follows the restless experimenter who came after.
The Musée Marmottan Monet and Giverny: Where Impressionism Began, and Where It Bloomed
In a quiet corner of Paris hangs the painting that gave a movement its name. Down the Seine, the garden Monet spent the rest of his life painting is still in flower.
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Most talked about
What people are saying about the works in the gallery.
“Is she turning toward us or away? I have looked at this a hundred times and I still cannot decide. I think that is the w…”
Isabella Fuentes · ♥ 9 · on Johannes Vermeer — Girl with a Pearl Earring
“The Ferris Bueller painting! I know it is so much more than that, but that scene of Cameron staring at the little girl i…”
Nicole Barnes · ♥ 8 · on Georges Seurat — A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
“Stood in front of this in New York years ago and the line was 45 minutes. Worth every second. What surprised me is how t…”
Marcus Bell · ♥ 7 · on Vincent van Gogh — The Starry Night
“I taught this painting to high schoolers for twenty years. Every year someone would point out that the room looks crooke…”
Joan Whitaker · ♥ 6 · on Vincent van Gogh — Bedroom in Arles
“Unpopular opinion after seeing her in person: the crowd is the artwork. Three hundred phones in the air and she just sit…”
Brian Kelly · ♥ 6 · on Leonardo da Vinci — Mona Lisa
Paul Gauguin — Day of the God (Mahana no Atua) · Art Institute of Chicago
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