Throughout history, artists have been captivated by the beauty, charm, and mystery of women. Some of these women became muses ...

We've collected the history of the nude, from sculpture to oil paintings, and from cam-chat to Snapchat. But more importantly ...

A huge, deconstructed typewriter greets you at the entrance to the Travancore Palace art gallery on Kasturba Gandhi Marg in Lutyens' Delhi. As you go around the sculpture, the iron ribbons and "keys" ...

The painting is now regarded as a masterpiece, but scandal surrounded the 1865 Paris exhibition of Olympia. Manet had dared to paint visual art's most universal subject, the nude, as an unidealized ...

With portraits the artist made of the people closest to him, the exhibition tunes into the details of his private life In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s piano ...

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 ...

The art world’s king of pop talks us through the masterpieces that inspired his latest collaboration with Louis Vuitton. Art history has always been important to me. When I was starting out, I wasn’t ...

The painting seems innocent enough. Edouard Manet slumps on a sofa, lost in thought or perhaps bored; his wife, Suzanne, plays the piano. This scene of cosy bourgeois domesticity was captured in the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Edgar Degas, Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet, 1868–69, Oil on canvas, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan ...

Die französischen Meister Manet und Degas verband eine komplizierte Beziehung. Das New Yorker Metropolitan Museum of Art zeigt eine große Ausstellung zum Werk der beiden. Wenn Edgar Degas damals in ...

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, ...