Amuse-bouche (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amuse-bouche): an elegant French phrase literally meaning “to amuse the mouth,” typically describing a small, singular hors d’oeuvre.
Here, the term is appropriated for a little morsel of artistic delight to start the week. Enjoy.
A visitor at the Met looks at John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883-84.
The American art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are freshly reinstalled. Enjoy a fantastic desktop tour through the article and interactive features in today’s New York Times.
For more on this painting and why it was oh so very scandalous, see English art critic Jonathan Jones’ “Madame XXX” in The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2006/feb/01/3
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