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Impressionism
The Sun King
The welcome that the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida received in the U.S. was as warm as the light in his pictures.
Lake Shore Unlimited
Chicago sets its own tone, artistically and otherwise, and its galleries and museums are great places to make discoveries.
Blurring Boundaries
As the once-offbeat genre of outsider art becomes ever more popular, will it retain its special aura?
Fantastic Voyage
Gordon Onslow Ford traveled through inner worlds of perception toward a new way of seeing and being.
Not Made by Hands
Wrested from the depths of the earth but possessing a beauty that seems almost unearthly, fine mineral specimens are now being collected as natural works of art.
A Flowering of Talent
Louis Comfort Tiffany brought nature’s beauty indoors with his luxe glass creations, which are being highlighted in several current museum shows.
Keeping It Real
Works from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, broaden the definition of American realism.
Crystallizing an Idea
Helped by new technologies, today’s glass artists are pushing this ancient medium beyond its traditional boundaries.
Shape-Shifter
Sigmar Polke, one of postwar Germany’s most important artists, had a penchant for mystery.


































