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Graham S. Haber
Colin B. Bailey is the Director of the Morgan Library and Museum. His books include Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris and Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting. (December 2023)
A New Language of Modern Art
An ambitious exhibition of the work of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas demonstrates their affinities and their shared ambition to revolutionize painting.
Manet/Degas
an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 28–July 23, 2023; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, September 24, 2023–January 7, 2024
December 21, 2023 issue
Dreams of Painting Walls
Two new books document the centrality of decoration for the Impressionists, both in commissions for houses and public buildings and more broadly as a founding principle of the movement.
La Peinture impressionniste et la décoration [Impressionist Painting and Decoration]
by Marine Kisiel
Le Décor impressionniste: aux sources des Nymphéas [Impressionist Decor: The Sources of the Water Lilies]
an exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, March 2–July 11, 2022
May 11, 2023 issue
A Master at Work
The Met's exhibition of Jacques Louis David's drawings demonstrates the ways he developed and refined the ideas expressed in his large paintings of classical history and contemporary events.
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 17–May 15, 2022
May 12, 2022 issue
A Compulsive Perfectionist
The intensely private Edgar Degas reveals himself intermittently in his voluminous correspondence, in moments of unexpected self-awareness and candor.
The Letters of Edgar Degas
bilingual edition edited and annotated by Theodore Reff
April 7, 2022 issue
Masterpieces Unmediated
The installation of the Frick Collection in Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist building is satisfying, elegant, thoughtful, and respectful at every turn.
The Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Other Reflections on Art at the Frick
edited by Michaelyn Mitchell, with a foreword by Adam Gopnik
Holbein’s Sir Thomas More
by Hilary Mantel and Xavier F. Salomon
Constable’s White Horse
by William Kentridge and Aimee Ng
Rembrandt’s Polish Rider
by Maira Kalman and Xavier F. Salomon
Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid
by James Ivory and Margaret Iacono
Gouthière’s Candelabras
by Edmund de Waal and Charlotte Vignon
May 13, 2021 issue
Suffering, Unfaltering Manet
Even in ill health, the painter continued to shock his audience.
Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years
an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, May 26–September 8, 2019; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 8, 2019–January 12, 2020
December 3, 2020 issue
In Plain Sight
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
an exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York City, October 24, 2018–February 10, 2019
Le Modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse
an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 26–July 21, 2019; and the Mémorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, September 13–December 29, 2019
December 19, 2019 issue
The Rake’s Progress
Casanova’s Europe: Art, Pleasure, and Power in the Eighteenth Century
an exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, August 27–December 31, 2017; the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, February 10–May 28, 2018; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 8–October 8, 2018
Casanova: The Seduction of Europe
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Frederick Ilchman, Thomas Michie, C.D. Dickerson III, and Esther Bell
September 27, 2018 issue
The Steely Connoisseur
21 rue La Boétie
an exhibition at the Musée de La Boverie de Liège, September 22, 2016–February 19, 2017; and the Musée Maillol, Paris, March 2–July 23, 2017
November 23, 2017 issue
Fragonard: The Heights of Drawing
Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant—Works from New York Collections
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 6, 2016–January 8, 2017
February 9, 2017 issue
Hubert Robert & the Joy of Ruins
Hubert Robert, 1733–1808
an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, March 9–May 30, 2016; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 26–October 2, 2016
October 13, 2016 issue
How He Ruled Art
Paul Durand-Ruel: Memoirs of the First Impressionist Art Dealer (1831–1922)
revised, corrected, and annotated by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, and translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre
Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market
Catalog of a recent exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, the National Gallery, London, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
December 3, 2015 issue
The Floating Studio
Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil
by Willibald Sauerländer, translated from the German by David Dollenmayer
April 23, 2015 issue
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