Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was ...

L’Atelier de Bazille” contrasts sharply with modern workplaces, which raises the question: How can we expect to bring out the ...

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) once said that "a painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers or even clouds..." The exhibition, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings," now at the Walters Art Museum in ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

(He once expressed regret that Berthe, charming though she was, wasn’t a man.) What Manet’s several paintings of Morisot communicate is a complex psyche rather than erotic allure, and their ...

Why you haven’t ever been included in a Whitney Biennial? I complained about it online. I think the curators that usually are ...