Edouard Manet

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Johannes Phokela’s mimicry of classical Western painting demands time to be convincing, an example being Ides of March (2015)

Johannes Phokela is on the comeback trail

A new exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town should reinstate the talented artist as one of South Africa’s leading painters

Mary Corrigall

Visitors look at Edouard Manet’s painting the Olympia at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay.

DEBORAH DE ROBERTIS

No sex in this city: the bare-faced cheek of Paris’s most sensual museum

The MusÈe d’Orsay called in police on a nude performance artist in an act of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.

Jonathan Jones