Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met as part of its ‘Manet/Degas’ exhibition “Olympia” — the Mona Lisa of modern art — has come to America for the first time. Édouard Manet began painting his ...

NEW YORK — In any survey class of Western art, Édouard Manet’s 1863 painting “Olympia” invariably comes up on the screen. Professors typically discuss how the naked white prostitute displayed starkly ...

NEW YORK — The 1865 Paris Salon was the site of grand scandale. “Olympia,” Édouard Manet’s painting of a nude courtesan lolling on a divan, forthrightly blasé alongside her Black maid and jittery cat, ...

NEW YORK — Crowds nudge forward, jostling for position, smartphones raised, waiting for a group of women to finish posing in front of “Olympia.” “Olympia,” if you didn’t know, was scandalous when it ...

CHICAGO — I wonder how often he thought back on it: the outrage, the reproaches, the shame, the folly. In 1865, two years after they rejected his “Déjeuner sur l’herbe,” the gatekeepers of the Paris ...

Two artists who pushed art into the modern age combine for a haunted love story at the Met NEW YORK — Rivalry is a kind of haunting. It takes place over time. The longer it goes on, the more the ...