Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met ... were showered with all the honors at the Salon (Paris’s annual showcase for contemporary art) were not images of real women.

Today, the painting is celebrated for heralding the dawn of modern art. Despite its international renown, Olympia has spent the vast majority of its 160-year existence in just one city ...

With Olympia, Manet rebels against the art establishment of the time ... It now hangs in the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, where it is considered a priceless masterpiece of 19th French painting.

Performance artist Deborah de Robertis has been arrested for indecent exposure after lying down naked in front of Édouard Manet's Olympia in Paris' Musée d'Orsay; mimicking the pose of his famed ...

The Luxembourgian performance artist Deborah de Robertis has been arrested at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris after disrobing and reclining in front of Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1865), recreating ...

Since 1865, when Édouard Manet's painting "Olympia" debuted in Paris, all eyes have been focused ... and that is what most of the art historical narrative is about. But the other is black." ...

They include Edouard Manet's "Olympia", the scandalous painting of ... black people played a major role in the birth of modern art in Paris, only to be later written out of the story.