What’s the Use of Beauty?
Edouard Manet’s notion of beauty changed starkly near the end of his life. Who determines what is or isn’t beautiful? And why are we so drawn to it?
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Market Values
How close, really, is the link between art and society?
Her Name is Laure
An exhibition at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay centers on a black model named Laure in Édouard Manet’s Olympia and reinterrogates the role of black people in art history.
How Germany’s Far Right is Co-opting Art History
What does Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1866 painting ‘Slave Market’ say about today’s extremist politics?
In Soccer, Power’s Always in Play
An exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arab in Paris explores a century of shifting Arab power through the lens of soccer.
What’s Behind the French National Assembly’s Racist Mural?
How a petition to remove the artwork has raised questions of censorship and the “infiltration” of American identity politics
The Whitney’s Choice
Can a Museum for ‘Progressive Artists’ Have an Arms-Manufacturer Vice-Chairman?
