Wendy Smith is a contributing editor of the American Scholar. SHOCKING PARIS By Stanley Meisler Palgrave Macmillan. 238 pp. $26 Although they were eventually dubbed "the School of Paris," the ...

At Art Basel in Miami a few weeks ago, it rained a lot, and some critics scorned the commercial excess with extra sharpness. For Basel art in Washington on a recent morning, the sun lit the season’s ...

On Saturday the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will open the largest retrospective of Marc Chagall's work in many years. Why Chagall now, when his influence appears harder to detect than ever?

The Memphis-born American Jewish novelist Steve Stern, 74, has long been inspired by Jewish folklore and a dream-like Yiddish literary tradition in the vein of I. L. Peretz, Itzik Manger, and Lamed ...

In the azure light that angles steeply down the slopes above the French Riviera, a sparkling translucence seizes nature. Rocks seem sodden with gold, flowers bloom like dabs on a palette, even grass ...

As a symbol of culture, freedom, and modernity, the city of Paris held a magnetic attraction for artists from across the globe during the early decades of the twentieth century. One of the defining ...

So many of the artists in "Marc Chagall and His Circle" at the Philadelphia Museum -- including Marc Chagall himself -- seem stuck between Modernism and Traditionalism, if Traditionalism means making ...

Amedeo Modigliani. Young Woman in a Yellow Dress (Renée Modot), 1918. This fall, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia will present an exhibition about the working methods of Modigliani. An extensive ...