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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edgar Degas, "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet” (1868–69), oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 27 15/16 inches; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (photo courtesy Kitakyushu Municipal Museum) Punctuation as ...

“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 ...

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 ...