The artist braved the freezing Pennines to cast a Romantic painting in a bold new light, while her restaging of Manet’s Olympia is wonderfully subversive
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Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” – now on display in New York – is hardly shocking today. But it both outraged and revitalised the world of art in 1865: the Paris Salon even had to hire armed guards.