Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter "When I stop being controversial, I'll stop being important," Gustave Courbet wrote to his parents in 1852. He was in his early ...

Around 10:30 p.m. on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, air raid sirens began to blare. This was not unusual; the sirens went off most nights. But as a civilian town that had largely managed to escape ...

200 years after his birth, few artists have done so much to change the course of history as Courbet. MutualArt takes a forensic look at perhaps his most radical painting It’s no overstatement to say ...