Art
The Dance Between Manet and Degas
What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
Edgar Degas
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Protesters Take to Met Museum to Denounce Charges Against Climate Activists
The action was staged in solidarity with climate protesters Joanna Smith and Tim Martin, who were indicted for targeting a Degas sculpture.
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Climate Activists Who Targeted Degas “Dancer” Indicted
Timothy Martin and Joanna Smith face penalties of up to $250,000 in fines and five years in prison for smearing paint on the plexiglass case protecting the sculpture.
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Manet’s Controversial Nude Is Coming to New York
“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.
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London's National Gallery Renames Degas’s "Russian Dancers" as "Ukrainian Dancers"
Calls to rename the mislabeled work have intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Art
Pastel Then, Pastel Now
The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history.
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The Trouble with Renoir’s Nudes
Renoir: The Body, The Senses makes some attempts, vain in my opinion, to present Renoir as a politically progressive artist, even a closet feminist.
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X-Rays of Degas Sculptures Illuminate His Unconventional Process
Conservation scientists at the Fitzwilliam Museum shed some light on the everyday objects forming the armatures of three surviving beeswax sculptures.
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The Blindness of Edgar Degas
His virulent belief system, which led him to cut off his Jewish friends in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, is unredeemed by his art.
Art
Degas and His Fascination with 19th-Century Hat Culture
The exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum includes paintings by Impressionists, along with period hats and bonnets embellished with silk flowers, ribbons, plumes, and feathers.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2016
The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.