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 ...

The exhibit at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach features more than 40 works by Edgar Degas, including drawings, ...

Edgar Degas was tired of picturing dancers. For two decades he had sketched performers all over the Paris Opera Ballet, from classroom to staircase to wings. He had cheered their successes onstage and ...

A sculpture by French Impressionist Edgar Degas sold for 13.3 million pounds ($19 million) Tuesday at Sotheby’s auction house in London.Degas’ “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” or “Little 14-year-old ...

Ballerina Misty Copeland is featured in a series of photos depicting characters from Edgar Degas iconic ballerina paintings. The photos featured in Harper's Bazaar were taken by Ken Browar and Deborah ...

And yet these delightful silhouettes suggest the contradiction at the heart of Degas’s paintings: his charming images are, in fact, exposés. We witness the endless behind-the-scenes graft that goes ...

The same type of technology that brought Tupac to Coachella is now being used to take an Edgar Degas ballerina on tour. Last week, a hologram of the French artist’s sculpture Petite danseuse de ...

At the ballet Degas found a world that excited both his taste for classical beauty and his eye for modern realism. He haunted the wings and classrooms of the magnificent Palais Garnier, home of the ...

NEW YORK -- The mystery itself is a masterpiece. A $10 million painting by Degas -- a simple figure of a ballerina in a yellow and red tutu pointing her toe – vanished from the New York City ...

The photos featured in Harper’s Bazaar were taken by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory of the New York Dance Project. And while Copeland makes it look easy, she told Harper’s Bazaar posing for the photos was ...