We often perceive the muses of great artists only through the prism of their works. However, artists are peculiar people and ...

The Olympia theater, which the city of Miami is considering turning over to a charter school, was originally designed and built in 1926 as a spectacular silent-movie palace.

Olympia’s figure also reminded me a bit of the West’s Japonisme craze – in fact, if you look at some of the portraiture coming out of modern-day Japan from artists such as Ikenaga Yasunari, you’ll ...

At the Gardner, a painting I’d long known and loved took on unsettling new tones amid the fullness of the family drama. The recent “Manet/Degas ” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ...

Artist arrested (again) for nude stunt in front of Manet's Olympia in Paris gallery. Deborah de Robertis was arrested for indecent exposure for her piece involving Edouard Manet's Olympia ...

The painting seems innocent enough. Edouard Manet slumps on a sofa, lost in thought or perhaps bored; his wife, Suzanne, plays the piano. This scene of cosy bourgeois domesticity was captured in ...

Art History What Makes ‘Olympia’ So Astoundingly Modern? Here Are 3 Things That Help Unlock Manet’s Enigmatic Canvas. Historians have argued that the scandalous 1863 painting of a courtesan ...

The ur-modernist painting to rule them all, “Olympia” (1863-65)—Manet’s triple portrait of a Black maid, a bug-eyed cat, and a naked white prostitute making no effort to pretend she enjoys ...

100 x 100 x 4 cm. (39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 in.) This painting The Delayed Olympia Gold Medal of Manet, as we all know, Manet's Olympia is his most representative work, the naked woman in front is Venus, ...

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 ...

Degas’s “Memory of Velázquez” shows the Spaniard painting “Las Meninas.” Both Manet and Degas would both eventually make history by breaking with it. Édouard Manet, ‘Olympia.’ ... It’s gorgeous, Manet ...

Manet’s ‘Olympia’ Comes to America for the Very First Time The painting scandalized 19th-century viewers and heralded the dawn of modern art Ellen Wexler - Assistant Editor, Humanities ...