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These texts show that Impressionism, the movement now celebrating its 150th anniversary, was diverse in its reckoning with changing social dynamics.

IMPRESSIONISM BEGAN IN REVOLT. Against the restrictive system of artistic training, the group embraced art-school dropouts. Against biased selection committees, they opened their ranks to all. Against hierarchical display conventions, they assigned wall space by lots. And so, in December 1873, they formed a société anonyme, a joint stock company. The artists based its charter on that of a bakers’ union and pledged to finance “the organization of free exhibitions, without a jury or honorifi...

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Karen Wilkin reviews “Impressionism: Art, Leisure & Parisian Society” by Robert L. Herbert.

LACMA CEO and director Michael Govan. Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, February 10. NEED-TO-READ LACMA Is Downsizing on Michael Govan’s House (Again) – The director of the Los Angeles museum will have to move for the second time in nine months now that LACMA is looking to sell his house, which it owns, for a...

Congratulations to writer, historian, and professor Paulina Bren 87 for publishing her new book "The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free." The book serves as the first formal documentation of the long history of NYC’s famous Barbizon Hotel for Women. fal.cn/3e7Ts Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez ’96 admits he was not an obvious choice to build the next generation of Wes students, but Gonzalezs honesty and clear vision has allowed him to succeed in his role as Wesleyans VP and Dean of Admission...

Robert L. Herbert, 91, Dies; Saw Impressionism With a Fresh Eye A distinguished art historian at Yale, he illuminated the paintings of Seurat, Monet and others by regarding them through a social lens. The pioneering art historian Robert L. Herbert in 1972. In a teaching career that spanned six decades, he was a prolific writer, editor and curator.Credit...via Herbert family By Richard B. Woodward Feb. 8, 2021 Robert L. Herbert, a pioneering scholar of 19th-century art whose 1988 history of Impr...