Adapted and excerpted from “Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism.” © 2024 by Sebastian Smee. Reprinted with permission from W.W. Norton ...

I first read the letters Édouard Manet wrote to his family in the winter of 1870-1871 on a dead summer afternoon in an ...

A stunning new art film, to be shown at selected cinemas, casts fresh eyes on the Impressionists tale of passion and ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.