Artnet

Renoir’s ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’ Captures the Height of Summer Leisure. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About the Impressionist Icon

Outdoor dining is the necessary rage in 2020, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s sumptuous The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) is one of the most idyllic images of its charms. Now in the Phillips ...
Artnet

Art Bites: The Movement to Remove Renoir From Museums

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bitesbrings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...
CNN

Renoir’s drawings showcased in major exhibition, the first of its kind in over a century

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a ...
Time Out

Renoir’s rarely seen drawings will go on view at the Morgan this fall

Move over, water lilies—this fall it’s Renoir’s sketchbook that’s stepping into the spotlight. The Morgan Library & Museum is about to do something no New York institution has attempted in more than a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See Renoir’s Rare Drawings on Display in the First Exhibition of Its Kind Since 1921

For the first time in more than a century, an exhibition dedicated to the lesser-known paper-based works of famed French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir has opened to the public. About 100 ...
The New Yorker

Renoir’s Rare Patchwork Masterpiece

The canon depends largely on availability, which is why many of the great films of Jean Renoir languish in undue obscurity. One of them, though, and one of the rarest—“Night at the Crossroads,” from ...
The New Yorker

Renoir’s Problem Nudes

Who doesn’t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter’s prodigious output of female nudes, “Renoir: The Body, the Senses,” at the Clark Art ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Renoir’s Controversial Second Act

Renoir's home in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in the South of France, was a source of inspiration (The Farm at Les Collettes, 1914). Bequest of Charlotte Gina Abrams, in memory of her husband, Lucien Abrams, 1961 ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN

Renoir's 'Two Girls at the Piano' charms Seoul exhibition

The girls at the piano are irresistibly charming. The background depicts the warm interior of a wealthy home. A blonde girl ...
6abc News

'Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes' on view through Sept. 8

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- 'Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes' features iconic works from the second-floor galleries. The exhibition was co-curated by Cindy Kang and Corrinne Chong. "See ...
NPR

3 Questions With The Guy Who Hates Renoir

The fact that paintings by renowned French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir are hanging in the museum. In April, Geller started a petition on the White House website urging President Obama ...