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Petition to Change Manet’s Name; “Too Similar to Monet”

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 1, 2022April 1, 2022

A poll showed that 83% of Musée d’Orsay visitors think the two French artists are the same person.

Posted inNews

The Most Valuable Stolen Artworks Across Time

by Hakim Bishara March 18, 2020March 18, 2020

On the anniversary of the Gardner Museum heist, learn more about the 10 most expensive missing artworks.

Posted inBooks

Broaching the Subject of Beauty

by David Carrier August 31, 2019August 30, 2019

A look at three paintings from the cusp of the 20th century that make a powerful argument for beauty.

Posted inIn Brief

Musée d’Orsay Puts Focus on Overlooked and Anonymous Black Models in French Masterpieces

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber March 26, 2019March 28, 2019

Black models: from Géricault to Matisse temporarily retitles works featuring historically anonymous Black models to honor their sitters.

Posted inBooks

How Painting Survives in the Digital Era

by Joseph Nechvatal March 18, 2019

In her new book, The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium, critic Isabelle Graw ruminates on how painting remains omnipresent within the contemporary capitalist system and digital economy.

Posted inArt

Deconstructing Race in Western Painting

by David Carrier December 1, 2018November 30, 2018

The most interesting part of this excellent exhibition is its presentation of black modernists, for here we enter relatively unfamiliar territory.

Posted inArt

The Women Who Modeled for Édouard Manet, from Artists to Lovers

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick November 30, 2018November 29, 2018

An introduction to six of the women who modeled for the masterpieces that earned Manet his canonical reputation.

Posted inArt

Degas and His Fascination with 19th-Century Hat Culture

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson July 24, 2017July 24, 2017

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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And you can send me dead flowers every morning…

by John Yau January 8, 2017January 7, 2017

It is the beginning of a new year and for some reason I have been thinking about flower paintings — perhaps prompted by the flower paintings that Edouard Manet made while he was dying.

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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino March 15, 2016March 15, 2016

At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.

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How Artists Portrayed Prostitution in 19th-Century Paris

by Joseph Nechvatal December 25, 2015December 30, 2015

PARIS — Perhaps out of a kindred permissive, libertine spirit, prostitution — both chic demi-mondaine and lascivious, pierreuse street-walker style — played a central role in the nascent development of modern painting.

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The Tombs of Artists: A Last Statement From the Grave

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 1, 2013August 7, 2013

As a last final statement, artists’ tombstones don’t disappoint. From the wildly eccentric to those that incorporate their own creations, the graves of artists are a fascinating reflection of their work.

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