On the preferred potable of Paris’s avant-garde. Left: Edgar Degas, Manet Seated, 1867–70, Pencil, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Right: Edouard Manet, 1870. Photo: Nadar. A few days before ...

Absinthe, an intense alcoholic spirit favored by artists such as Degas, Van Gogh and Hemingway, is making a comeback in the U.S. after being banned by the government for almost 100 years. Its rebirth ...

It's inspirational genius; it's the green fairy; it's evil in a glass. It's absinthe. If you saw the movie "Moulin Rouge," you probably noticed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sipping the glowing green ...

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass, you see things as they are not. Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add ...

In Edgar Degas’s 1876 painting The Absinthe Drinker, now hanging in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, a woman sits before a glass of jade liqueur. With half-open eyes, her hat and blouse askew, she slumps, ...

The large glass of absinthe sitting in front of the woman is clearly not her first. It isn't just the slack, unfocused eyes that tell you: Slumped against the banquette, her shoulders droop; listless ...

In the late 20th century, espressos and caffe lattes became available on every urban street corner. In late 19th-century Paris, absinthe was the favored drink of artists and writers. Some say ...