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Vive L’impressionnisme! at the Van Gogh Museum: a compelling, eco-conscious celebration of impressionism

Despite its corny title, Vive L’Impressionnisme!, which recently opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is well worth seeing. Marking the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, the show tells the story of how one of the movement’s founders, Claude Monet, and his contemporaries were supported by a…

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Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place review – Black art disruptor shakes down the museum

Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeThe US artist has rifled the Fitzwilliam’s collections and ruffled the calm of its gilded masterpieces with playful unruliness and stark, neon-lit questions

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Six Lives at the National Portrait Gallery review: Henry VIII still looms large in this celebration of his wives

This exhibition tries to present each of the six wives as feisty and interesting, with mixed results

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Discover Degas & Miss La La; Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls – review

Degas’s masterpiece gives up its secrets in a fascinating show, while Nan Goldin pays powerful tribute to her sister, who took her own life at 18

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Five of the biggest summer exhibitions around the UK – what you should see this week

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Discovering Degas: new exhibition in Glasgow reveals boldness and foresight of early British collectors

In 1891, an exhibition titled A Small Collection of Works by Degas and Others opened in London, before travelling up to Glasgow. It was organised by the Scottish art dealer Alexander Reid, who had recently returned from Paris.

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Climate activist who defaced Edgar Degas sculpture exhibit sentenced

A federal judge sentenced Joanna Smith to 60 days in prison for smearing paint on the case surrounding Edgar Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen at the National Gallery of Art.

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As France celebrates, it doesn’t seem like 150 years since the first impressionist exhibition

A major exhibition opens at the Musée d’Orsay and there are shows and festivals across the country

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‘It’s time to re-examine its radical nature’: Paris to celebrate 150 years of impressionism

Musée d’Orsay to open a major show to throw new light on the 1874 exhibition that marked the advent of avant-garde art

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Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises

From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close

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Impressionists on Paper review – Van Gogh sets this rambling show on fire

Sterile sketches by Monet, Degas and Renoir make you grateful they mostly stuck to painting – but Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh’s empathy and emotion steal the show

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Impressionists on Paper at the Royal Academy will shed light (but not too bright) on a seismic shift in art

The museum's forthcoming exhibition is a chance to see fragile works that won't travel again for many years

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‘It’s a very rich story’: the complicated connection between Manet and Degas

An expansive new exhibition at the Met explores the fractious personal and professional relationship between two titans of the French art world

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US climate activists smear paint on Degas sculpture enclosure

Washington (AFP) - Climate activists attacked a famous Degas sculpture in a Washington museum Thursday, smearing its Plexiglas enclosure with paint.

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Paris's must-see exhibitions: From Warhol and Basquiat to Manet and Degas

From the dynamic collaboration between iconic pop artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol to the vicious rivalry between French impressionist painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, "Encore!" takes you to Paris's top exhibitions of the moment.

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As the Met reclassifies Russian art as Ukrainian, not everyone is convinced

New York museum is among institutions reattributing works by painters born in what is now Ukraine – to a mixed response

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From Ancient Egypt to Gainsbourg and Picasso: The Paris exhibits to see in 2023

Paris is gearing up for a new year of must-see exhibits, from a rare chance to view the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramesses II to a Harry Potter “experience” or a deep dive into rival Impressionists Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas.

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M Degas Steps Out: An Essay by Philip Hoy review – an artistic encounter across a century

A nine-second 1915 film of the painter Edgar Degas inspires a beguiling meditation on life in Paris during the first world war

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Three Impressionist paintings that give an insight into the complicated history of breastfeeding in the 19th century

The history of breastfeeding reveals uncomfortable truths about women, work and money. An unlikely place where the history of nursing is clearly visible is in Impressionist paintings.

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Degas, Picasso Sculptures Bring Record Prices in New York

A sculpture by Edgar Degas sold Thursday for $41.6 million at Christie's in New York, the highest price paid at auction for a work by the French artist, while a bronze by Pablo Picasso also broke a record. The Degas sculpture -- "Petite danseuse de quatorze ans" -- is a…

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A once-in-a-lifetime look at Raphael plus Japanese creativity at Buckingham Palace – the week in art

A Raphael exhibition to convince sceptics, NY minimalist Rosemarie Castoro, spectacular colour from Sheila Hicks and Japanese art with a royal flavour – all in your weekly dispatch

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National Gallery renames Degas’ Russian Dancers as Ukrainian Dancers

London gallery’s move prompts calls for rethink of ‘lazy’ mislabelling of Ukrainian art and heritage

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