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

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

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

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 ...

“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 ...

They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer ... lavish oil paintings and 10 charcoal drawings dated between 1884 and 1923. Sargent’s subjects ...

The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that label to their achievements and inner lives. One hundred years after John ...

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 ...