It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so shocking?

Sargent had been at work on this portrait since 1882, when he approached Gautreau with a typically canny offer to paint her portrait. For the previous few years, he had been receiving and executing ...

The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a ...

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer ... artists and writers who were part of the city’s elite. The Metropolitan Museum exhibition ...

“Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits,” on view through October 5, not only brings our attention to some of the artist’s most magnificent masterpieces, it also lifts the veil on his subject ...

Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a ...

Throughout history, artists have ... rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that label to their achievements and inner lives.

The four-part docuseries This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist (available on Netflix!) tells the story of the notorious event that took place over 30 years ago in the middle of the night on ...