A Rustling Theater of the Self

By LAURA JACOBS

New York

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through May 27

‘The Parisienne is not in fashion,” wrote Arsène Houssaye, the editor of L’Artiste, in 1869, “she is fashion.” So reads a quotation on the wall of “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,” the sublime exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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