A few days before the opening reception, Saltman made and posted a 'cheeky' edit of the work as an invite card on the social media platform and got an immediate notice that the post 'could limit [the gallery account's] reach with non-followers.' Then, when gallery owner Marc Wehby shared the same edit on his personal Instagram account, Meta instantly removed the post.
Gallery Director Emily Saltman, who curated the show, shared that it was born from her experience seeing Édouard Manet's 'Olympia' (1863) in person for the first time in the Manet/Degas show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall. Reflecting on how so many of the painting's initial viewers were scandalized by the presentation of its subject, who was modeled after a sex worker, and by the foreground inclusion of a Black woman, Saltman said she knew what she had to do.
[
Collection
]
[
|
...
]