Last week, a French court ordered Paris’s Musée d’Orsay to restitute four paintings that were stolen and sold to the Nazis after the abrupt death of their one-time owner, famed French art dealer ...
In an exhibition timed to promote the release of Julian Schnabel’s film about Vincent van Gogh, the museum juxtaposes 13 paintings from its 19th century collection with 11 of Schnabel's works. Julian ...
Some 130 works by 31 artists are on display at the Musée d’Orsay in “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism,” which marks the 150th anniversary of the show that launched the movement. But of all the ...
France’s Musée d’Orsay has some titillating works of art on offer which are exciting visitors and critics—and not in a good way. “Splendour and Misery: Pictures of Prostitution, 1850-1910” is the ...