It seems too much the result of the marketing department’s fantasies. With the possible exception of
Sex, Violence and Money
, it is hard to think of a title for a blockbuster art show more crowd- pleasing than
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
. The impressionists are sure-fire box office, and so is fashion. Throw in modernity for a touch of intellectual respectability and wait for the queues to form.
Yet cynicism quickly evaporates in the face of this superb exhibition, which is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until the end of May. (It opened last September at the
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