The exhibition examines a crucial decade in the career of this portraitist of the bourgeoisie, who combined artistic daring ...

It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so shocking?

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From the 1880's nearly until the start of World War I, by which point he had pretty much given up portraiture, John Singer Sargent was the most skillful society painter on either side of the ...

Bobby Acosta has resigned as St. John Vianney High School’s head football coach after just one season, the school announced in a press release Saturday afternoon.

J.T. Bowen’s painting of John Rollin Ridge's father John Ridge, a leader in the Cherokee Nation, assassinated before his ...

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