Mickalene Thomas at Brooklyn Museum

Mickalene Thomas, Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe:  les trois femmes noires, 2010.
Mickalene Thomas, Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe: les trois femmes noires, 2010.

Mickalene Thomas’s ‘Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe:  Les trois femmes noires,’ rethinks Manet’s 1863 original by substituting three black women for Manet’s two men and a nude woman. Manet’s version was rejected by the Salon, while Thomas’s rhinestone bedecked beauties headline her current show at the Brooklyn Museum (Through Jan 20th.)