If the name Edgar Degas brings to mind Impressionist paintings of ballerinas, an upcoming summer exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) might expand your understanding of the artist’s ...
Exhausted and disillusioned after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, young French artist Edgar Degas, like so many young men before and after him, retreated to New Orleans to let off some steam and ...
When we meet Mary Cassatt in playwright Chris Ward’s new production, The Independents, playing now off Broadway at the Jerry Orbach Theater, she is at her studio awaiting a visit from Edgar Degas. A ...
Edgar Degas, “Factory Smoke (Fumées d’usines)” (1877–79), monotype on paper, plate: 4 11/16 x 6 5/16 inches, sheet: 5 13/16 x 6 13/16 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha ...
HOUSTON — For today’s art, does Edgar Degas matter? That’s the question at the heart of a large and fascinating retrospective exhibition newly opened at the Museum of Fine Arts here. The unsurprising ...
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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 ...
Harriet Scott Chessman’s novel, “The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas,” begins by showing us the artist from the perspective of his Creole sister-in-law, Estelle “Tell” Musson Balfour Degas. We follow ...
PARIS -- French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus more than eight years after it was reported stolen. According to the BBC, the pastel painting, ...
The Swiss watchmaker Swatch has partnered with the Guggenheim to create a collection inspired by 20th-century artworks from ...
French impressionist Edgar Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime: “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But he loved sculpting in the privacy of his studio. In honor of the centenary of Degas’ ...