The Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington is known primarily for always staying the same. That’s intentional: The house’s designer and owner, Theodate Pope Riddle, stipulated in her will that nothing ever ...

This Edgar Degas piece, "Before the Performance," is not one of the seven prints at the center of a $166,000 lawsuit filed this week, but it is an example typical of the French artist's work. The ...

Every picture tells a story – but that’s not the way Edgar Degas looked at it. The Impressionist painter, known mainly for his pictures of ballerinas, was more interested in the form of his subjects, ...

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 ...

For most exhibitions of eminent impressionist masters, hands-on research isn’t generally part of the game plan. But for the organizers of “Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty,” opening March 26 at the ...

An installation view of the Degas exhibit at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. Edgar Degas' photograph of Christine Lerolle, 1895-96. Gelatin silver print. An installation view of the Degas exhibit ...

Rightly or not-quite-accurately, New Orleans has long claimed Edgar Degas as one of its own. Much has been made of the 19th-century French painter’s Creole relatives in the United States; his mother’s ...

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 ...

Reporting from Washington — In 1877, when he was 43, the French impressionist Edgar Degas began stopping by the studio of the 33-year-old American Mary Cassatt and offering her a point or two that ...