In this SundayArts choice, Associate Curator Judith F. Dolkart shows you her favorite pieces in the Brooklyn Museum exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea. This show marks first major showing of the artist’s oeuvre in New York in over thirty years. In addition to the well-known Parisian cityscapes that have traditionally [...]

Impressionism occupies a funny space between bourgeois blah and revolution. A Monet can come across as genre-changing or as wallpaper; a Degas, visionary or musty, depending on the viewer’s mood. This is one of the more intriguing aspects of the movement—the Trojan horse aspect in which it brought pivotal change to modern art while often [...]