"The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the various approaches and mediums—paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, film, dance, fashion, and more—artists used nearly a century ago to express and explore their political ideas. Manet/Degas counts 160 paintings and works on paper from the two French painters—contemporaries and rivals. It gets personal—the Met promises to examine the two “in the context of the family relationships, friendships, intellectual circles, and sociopolitical events that influenced their artistic and professional choices.” The classics continue with Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism, the title of which promises a dizzying exploration of the artists' partnership in Collioure on the French Mediterranean—a welcome glimpse of summertime as we descend into winter."