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 ...

The National Gallery has changed the title of Edgar Degas' drawing Russian Dancers to Ukrainian Dancers", prompting calls for other cultural institutions to rethink interpretations of art. The ...

Horses, ballerinas and family portraits — all among his favorite themes — make up the bulk of the works in the Morgan Library & Museum’s “Degas Drawings and Sketchbooks,” which will run through ...

Degas was an end and a beginning, a bridge between the neo-classicism of his teacher’s teacher, Ingres, and the painting of modern life by that scruffy band of outsiders known as the Impressionists.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GOLDEN — The Foothills Art Center has been raising its profile lately. Last year, it presented a successful show of Dale Chihuly art glass. This year, it ...

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 ...

Their names are inextricable from the very definition of modern art – Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso. Along with their artistic milieus in Paris, their muscular and daring creativity tested the boundaries ...

PARIS (AP) — France has restored to its rightful owners a drawing by Edgar Degas that was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner in 1940. In a moving ceremony in Paris on Monday, Culture Minister ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1593): Which 19 th-century technology managed to freeze and preserve transient moments? If you answered “the photograph”, you get a B+ (known in my student days as a C). If you ...

Though he’s considered a founding member of the Impressionists, Degas never quite lost his realist bent. The sketches in this pocket-size show reveal the artist’s perfectionist impulses as, working ...

In many respects, finding an artistic masterpiece at a thrift store is akin to winning the lottery. Seldom does it ever happen, but it does indeed happen from time to time — from a Yoshitomo Nara ...