Artist Austin Davis was a high schooler in Yelm when he first saw downtown Olympia’s mural of “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” which has stood on Fourth Avenue at the foot of Budd Inlet for almost 50 ...

It’s not often that a naked woman holds all the power, but when you look at Edouard Manet’s famous painting Olympia, it seems his model does exactly that. As she reclines on a chaise, wearing nothing ...

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. Guards ...

(MENAFN- USA Art News) This fall an unprecedented event in the art world is expected. Édouard Manet's famous 1863 Olympia will travel from Paris to New York for the first time. Olympia and other works ...

In 1865, Edouard Manet’s painting “Olympia” debuted in the Paris Salon, changing the art world forever. Controlled by the French Academy of Fine Arts, the annual Salon was the most important art ...

‘Olympia,’ a masterpiece by Belgian surrealist René Magritte, valued at around 3 million euros, was stolen from a Brussels museum Thursday while the site was open to visitors. REUTERS - Two men, one ...