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 ...

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, almost muscular, her legs short and knobby. Beneath her, white ...

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 — 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 ...

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, ...

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, May 12. Pompidou Launches ...

French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long overlooked black subjects in a ground-breaking new Paris show on the representation of people of colour in art. Manet's "Olympia", the ...

“Manet: A Model Family,” opening at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Oct. 10, arrives in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the first-ever Impressionist exhibition, held in Paris in ...