Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

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 ...

As she channels the artist Edgar Degas's most famous ballet works ahead of a new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, dancer Misty Copeland opens up about what it feels like to make history.

In 1997 curators at Paris's Musee d'Orsay asked the Ballet de l'Opera de Paris to restore the fragile tulle skirt on Edgar Degas's most famous work: "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans." That was ...

Ballet was just the one thing that brought me to life." A new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty," opens this month.

“Degas at the Opera,” which marks the 350th anniversary of the Paris Opera, runs from Sept. 24 to Jan. 19, 2020. It then moves to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where it will ...

Misty Copeland poses to recreate Edgar Degas' famous works. (Instagram/mistyonpointe) ByCox Media Group National Content Desk February 13, 2016 at 12:46 pm EST ...

DEGAS CARED FOR MUSIC, and had particular admiration for Gluck, but he was not only at the Opéra to listen. In late 19th-century Paris, opera was a social spectacle that made it an ideal subject ...

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 ...