Impressionism started out 151 years ago out as a rebellious movement, derided by critics, but it’s box office gold these days, and museums worldwide celebrated its sesquicentennial with major ...

Installation view of "Manet & Morisot" at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2025. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco It’s possible to have a lifetime ...

A new exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco captures the creative spark between two avant-garde 19th-century painters, Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. By Karen Rosenberg Reporting from ...

Twenty years ago, Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers published “Impressionist Quartet,” an interlocking biography exploring the “intimate genius” of painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and Edgar ...

The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past century. But no major exhibition has explicitly explored the creative ...

“Manet, Monet,” says a museum visitor to her companion in a famous New Yorker cartoon. “I hear both are correct.” Claude Monet may be the more popular and beloved artist, but Édouard Manet is surely ...

Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, November 5, 2006-January 29, 2007 Manet and the Execution of Maximilian is a small, compelling ...

Henri Fantin-Latour depicted both Manet (standing third from right) and Duranty (seated first on left) in his 1864 paiting "Hommage à Delacroix." (image via Wikimedia Commons) On the morning of ...

Édouard Manet, “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” (1882), oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm (via Wikimedia, the Courtauld Gallery, London) The wall labels of painted portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in ...

As a general rule, I’m not much of one for speculative history or fiction. I’ll happily admit, for example, that I was deeply unimpressed with George Orwell’s 1984. While I was quickly (and, on my ...