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, ...

Olympia stares out from the canvas, her level gaze almost a dare. In Édouard Manet’s famed 1863 painting, a woman—a courtesan, in fact—reclines on a chaise lounge. She is naked and her body is pale, ...

After Victorine Meurent posed for Manet’s ‘Olympia,’ she took art classes and painted this fascinating self-portrait To begin with, it’s one of fewer than half a dozen paintings attributed with any ...

Who, indeed? Putting aside the absurdity of Claretie’s question—Olympia was a common nom de guerre in brothels—the answer is Victorine Meurent, the model, musician and artist wrongly framed by many ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay places the spotlight on modern art’s oft-unheralded black models, affording these previously anonymous sitters a semblance of agency by (temporarily) renaming ...

Édouard Manet's Olympia will soon make its United States debut in a new exhibition. Musée d’Orsay When Édouard Manet’s Olympia debuted in 1865, viewers at the Paris Salon were aghast. “Spectators were ...

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 ...

“Olympia” (1863) will be shown in the US for the first time as part of a Met exhibition focused on the joint careers of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas. The gears are turning at the Metropolitan Museum ...

“Olympia,” the brothel scene that birthed modern art, crosses the Atlantic for the first time in the Met exhibition “Manet/Degas.” By Jason Farago “A colossal ineptitude,” one enraged critic called it ...

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 ...