Debussy, Music and the Arts

Classical composers don't tend to make for good art exhibitions – but, if the Bridgestone Museum of Art is to be believed, Claude Debussy was different. To coincide with the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, the museum is holding an exhibition that makes explicit the links between Debussy and the art world that he inhabited – and which sometimes directly influenced his work. Drawing on the collections of the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie, the show features many of the key figures of fin-de-siècle French art, including Degas, Renoir and Manet.