By Mario Naves 8/11/03 12:00am

Naval Battle Claims Victim: Manet’s Reputation Scuppered

Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting , the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been dismantled, the pictures packed in crates and shipped back to their respective collections. Out of sight, out of mind? Not a chance. Manet/Velázquez was an event-”once in a lifetime” is the phrase-that will be talked about for Read More

By Mario Naves 8/05/02 12:00am

The General Public Gets It Right: Bring On More Monet, Manet & Co.

Another Impressionist show? That’s how most of us who take an interest in the art scene reacted to the news that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would present The Age of Impressionism: European Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen . It’s a question laced with cynicism. Any show dedicated to Impressionist art equals boffo box Read More