The fundamentals of ballet haven’t changed all that much since its invention in 15th-century Italy. Yet the popular image of this deeply traditional medium has been largely defined by the talents of ...

In honor of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas’ 184th birthday and the Museum of Fine Arts’ new exhibit, “French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault,” two pre-professional ballerinas convened at the ...

The Royal Academy's mesmerising Degas and the Ballet begins and ends with the artist himself: dark-eyed and wary at the door in a lifesize photograph, half-blind in a tantalising film in the final ...

In February 1874, the French writer Edmond de Goncourt visited “a strange painter called Degas” in his studio. It proved a memorable occasion. Degas performed a kind of jig — a “choreographic sequence ...

Opera and ballet were a fashionable part of Parisian cultural life, and Degas was likely in the audience long before he began to paint the dancers. Indeed, some of his first dance paintings portray ...

Stop everything you're doing and just look at the perfection that is Misty Copeland's latest editorial for Harper's BAZAAR. Ken Browar and Deborah Ory photograph her in recreations of Edgar Degas's ...

Although Edgar Degas, the son of a music-loving banker, is almost certain to have attended the Paris Opera from an early age, the fact that he didn’t begin painting its dancers until he was ...

In honor of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas’ 184th birthday and the Museum of Fine Arts’ new exhibit, “French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault,” two pre-professional ballerinas convened at the ...