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 being ...

With portraits the artist made of the people closest to him, the exhibition tunes into the details of his private life In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s piano ...

Berthe Morisot, "Intérieur," (1872), oil on canvas (photo by Randy Dodson, courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; all other photos Bridget Quinn/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) SAN ...

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Two old friends come together again - this time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edgar Degas, his vibrant colors against a stark background. Édouard Manet, whose ...

Edgar Degas, "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet” (1868–69), oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 27 15/16 inches; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (photo courtesy Kitakyushu Municipal Museum) Punctuation as ...

The worlds of fashion and fine art have crossed over once again. Loewe’s Spring 2025 collection showcased the fashion house’s own iteration of the timeless graphic tee, with tops featuring art by ...

BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly described ...

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 ...

Adapted and excerpted from “Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism.” © 2024 by Sebastian Smee. Reprinted with permission from W.W. Norton ...

As a general rule, I’m not much of one for speculative history or fiction. I’ll happily admit, for example, that I was deeply unimpressed with George Orwell’s 1984. While I was quickly (and, on my ...