NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris” exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In 1884, a decade ...

Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a stir at their unveilings, Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is the John ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 26–August 3) explores John Singer ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There are only a few days left to experience the Sargent and Paris exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where art historian Elizabeth Block works, there’s always a crowd near John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (1884). Everyone wants to spy that black slinky dress, and ...

He was only 18 years old in 1874, when he moved with his American expatriate family from Florence to Paris, intent on becoming an artist. It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the ...