A 19th Century Masterpiece That Scandalizes Still

By Jerry Saltz on September 21, 2023

It is a cliché: the work of art that scandalizes audiences upon its debut, only to get its due once the shock of the new fades away. Édouard Manet’s 1863 masterpiece Olympia, the star of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s gigantic new show “<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/ma... More »