The rotunda at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is easily recognizable and identifiable by many Boston residents and art enthusiasts. The massive murals, painted by John Singer Sargent, depict beautiful ...

While revered by major museums internationally, the painter remains little known in France. Focusing on his Paris years, his ...

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 269. "European and American paintings ...

The courtyard at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, is shown Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004. Isabella Gardner's "Holiday Table," which is set with Gardner's original dinnerware, stemware and ...

Museums have adopted creative engagement strategies when renovation work keeps visitors away. By Annabel Keenan By spotlighting unusual varieties and unlikely combinations, designers are casting the ...

How does a young American artist move to Paris, make friends and influence people, incite a scandal, and then keep on painting? With a little help from his friends. Courtesy of MFA Boston, Musee ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. This past Thursday, horticulturists at the ...

The museum founder’s life and legacy are celebrated in ‘ghost story,’ a new song cycle by Phil Kline that premieres at the museum this weekend “I do not want a black cloth casket. I want a coffin made ...

Since John Singer Sargent and Henry Clay Frick were contemporaries with sympathetic tastes, moving in elite circles, it’s surprising that they never got together for a sitting. The Frick Collection, ...

Like a swank ocean liner of a bygone era, the John Singer Sargent exhibition, "Sargent and Spain," at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Feb.11-May 14) from the National Gallery in Washington, is a ...