In a city like Paris, full of monuments to famous conquests and heroic figures from history, the artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset take a different tack. For a new exhibition at the ...

The British art historian John Golding regarded Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) as having a restless mind. The French artist was also someone who knew how to hustle. In his History of Impressionism, ...

A climate activist for the group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack) has been arrested after gluing a poster onto a masterpiece by Monet at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on Saturday. This protest is ...

Guests will get to stay inside the Musée d'Orsay's clock room on the night of July 26. Frederik Vercruysse When the Olympics kick off in Paris on July 26, the opening ceremony will take place along ...

Paris’s iconic Musée d’Orsay, once a railway station made obsolete by World War II because of platforms too short for modern trains, has come a long way from facing demolition. In true French fashion, ...

The Musée d’Orsay on the banks of the Seine in Paris on December 08, 2020 in Paris, France. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images When it comes to the art world, the names of certain institutions ...

The director of the Musée d’Orsay, Christophe Leribault, discussed a show of Vincent van Gogh’s final works and plans for the institution’s future. By Farah Nayeri Vincent van Gogh died of a ...

The image is striking and the framing is dramatic. In Partie de bateau, dated 1877-1878, the painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) places the viewer in a boat rowed on the River Yerres by a smartly ...

A woman barred from entering one of France’s most prestigious art galleries apparently because she was wearing a low-cut dress has received an apology after sharing details of the incident on social ...

"Women at the Terrace of a Café in the Evening" (1877) by Edgar Degas. Pastel on monotype. MUSÉE D’ORSAY, DIST. RMN-GRAND PALAIS/PATRICE SCHMIDT Degas and Manet, it is the marriage of oil and water.