On a visit to a museum, one usually hones in on the quest to take in as much art as possible. As one walks between galleries, absorbing centuries of art, an expected but often overlooked…
Salon
In Édouard Manet’s Olympia, which is making its debut in the United States at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in "Manet/Degas," the artist inserts a black cat to represent what we cannot see, proving…
The word salon has a rich history of its own and was even used to indicate several different things within France in this period including an elite social gathering often led by a woman, a large…
