`Manet and Modern Beauty` now at the Art Institute suggests that you don`t know your Manet
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)

Edouard Manet´s late career works were dismissed for decades as mere confections, often dashed-off paintings of fruit and flowers and, especially, fashionable Parisian women, mere `feminized` shadows of his rigorous earlier work executed under the constraints of an ill-gotten and ultimately fatal...