There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series on French poetic realism, a short-lived but intense film movement of the 1930s that is extraordinarily timely right now. A bleak and brooding yet ...

There is also the case of subjectivity. Some people may be moved by poetic writing; others will call that nothing but purple prose and didactic. A painting that moves you will be scoffed at by another ...

More narrowly defined, “Realism” is often viewed as the first modern art movement. It emerged in France in the 1840s as a rejection of traditional forms of art and literature deemed obsolete ...

Decorating the walls of the gallery were 23 pieces of art, predominantly photographs. The space itself felt barren, with nothing but a couple of benches in the center of the room, allowing the pieces ...

Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city ...