Van Gogh Museum Acquires Degas Pastel from the Artist’s Seminal Series of Nudes
The pastel work is the first of its kind to enter the Dutch national collection.
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Edgar Degas Called the Opera His ‘Laboratory.’ An Exhilarating Paris Show Reveals How It Became His Greatest Muse.
At the Musée d'Orsay, more than 200 works explore the world in front of, and behind, the curtain.
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Valsuani Foundry, Known for Controversial ‘Authentic Copies’ of Degas Works, Ordered to Close to Pay Off Debts
Valsuani, which, over the past three decades, has come under fire for making plaster casts of Edgar Degas’s sculptures, has been ordered to close by a French judge, the New York Times reports. The…
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The Landscape Painter Degas Might Have Been: Theodore Reff on an Unseen Side of the Impressionist, in 1976
Many visitors to the Museum of Modern Art’s show “Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty” will probably come for the French Impressionist’s paintings of ballet dancers, but they’ll also get a look at a…
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‘In the Spirit of the Present Day’: The Met Gets Modern With a Major Donation of 19th-Century Painting, in 1930
Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens the Met Breuer, its hotly anticipated annex for modern and contemporary art. Many have seen the Met Breuer as a way of bringing the Met up to date, making…
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Convicted Art Criminal Claims He Was Sold Fake de Kooning Paintings, Picasso Etchings
After being convicted on counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, false declarations in court, escape, and contempt earlier this year in an art-fraud court case, Californian real estate developer Luke Brugna…
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Art History, Now in Doll Form
Kyle Hilton had little trouble transforming the lead characters of Downton Abbey, Girls, and Breaking Bad into paper dolls, but he turned out to be unexpectedly confounded by Picasso. "I thought I…
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The Artistic Influences that Made Artists Artists
Hank Willis Thomas, Pat Steir, Deborah Kass, and others reflect on their early encounters with art and the childhood experiences that shape their work
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