WILLIAMSTOWN — Michelle Foa wants to set the record straight about Edgar Degas. She wants the world to understand that he painted so much more than dancers and laundresses and did so in a variety of ...

In these uncertain times, the National Gallery of Art’s in-person exhibit “Degas at the Opéra” offers a comforting return to a well-known artist while simultaneously examining the influences and ...

The stolen painting by Edgar Degas discovered last week on a bus just outside of Paris will go on show at the city’s Musée d’Orsay next year in an exhibition due to travel to Washington, DC, the ...

Degas: A Passion for Perfection will showcase prolific French artist Edgar Degas’ works from 1855 to 1906. More than 100 works consisting of paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “Degas: A Passion for Perfection” is a blockbuster show in spite of itself, a must-see that does its homework and serves up plenty for others. It’s ...

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA– Art has always been ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the Denver Art Museum this week unveiled “Degas: A Passion for Perfection,” one of its most-anticipated exhibitions in years, a longtime researcher of the ...

As the contemporary French historian Daniel Halévy put it, Degas “became an impoverished painter who had to earn his living and support his brothers who had become poor like himself. His choice of new ...

Today’s automatic washers and dryers take care of our laundry, but anyone who has sopped up the watery overflow of a washing machine with towels or laboriously wrung out handwashed sheets can relate ...

PARIS — You’ll find them up in the balcony, or in standing room, silently mouthing the libretto or humming along with the score. These are the superfans: the compulsive lovers of opera or ballet or ...