Musée d’Orsay

Impressionism is 150 years old – this is the anniversary show to see

6 April 2024 9:00 am

The time that elapsed between the fall of the Paris Commune and the opening of the first proper impressionist exhibition…

Satirical diptych, 1520–1530, anonymous Flemish artist

This Parisian exhibition has rewritten the story of art

14 May 2016 9:00 am

Why do we put one work of art beside another? For the most part museums and galleries tend to stick…

Is Julian Barnes right to think Lucian Freud will survive? Jonathan Meades thinks not

30 May 2015 9:00 am

The subject of the least characteristic essay in this engrossing collection of meditations on painters, painters’ lives, painting and reactions…