Two halves of a painting that Manet split in 1878 will be reunited for the first time in nearly 150 years at the National ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

The reason this 1882 painting has become a hit on the social media app X has nothing to do with Manet's radically cold touch, or even the fact that the work is famous at all. Instead, it has to do ...