The New York Studio School was lively Wednesday evening as Johns Hopkins University professor Michael Fried and New Criterion coeditor and co-publisher Roger Kimball offered starkly varying views on ...

Maybe it’s Courbet’s notorious good looks or maybe it’s his accessible Realism, but this particular self-portrait has proven one of those rare artworks that has permeated the collective consciousness, ...

Last week, Hyperallergic reported on the alleged discovery of the upper half of Gustave Courbet’s x-rated “The Origin of the World” (1866) in Paris. Experts are now casting doubt on the argument that ...

Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a deeply controversial figure. Slurred as a ‘socialist painter’ he said, “I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a Democrat and a Republican ...