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EXHIBITION REVIEW; Degas: More Than Just a Ballet Master
LONDON -- Trying to explain the oeuvre of a great master through the pursuit of a single theme is risky and putting up a big art show to demonstrate the idea is trickier still. ''Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement'' on view at the Royal Academy through Dec. 11 is curated by two art historians, Richard Kendall and Jill DeVonyar, who have spent...
Workers Wearing Toeshoes
IN 1903, when ballet had been a prolific subject of Edgar Degas for over 30 years, an American collector, Louisine Havemeyer, asked him, ''Why, monsieur, do you always do ballet dancers?'' His quick reply was, ''Because, madame, it is all that is left us of the combined movements of the Greeks.'' This already said much: in ballet he had found a...
ARTS, BRIEFLY; A Sculpture Down For the Count
A visitor at an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London on Saturday slipped and fell into a nine-foot ceramic sculpture, smashing it into hundreds of pieces, The Guardian reported. The damaged sculpture, named ''Christina'' and valued at approximately $11,900, was part of an exhibition organized by the artist Tracey Emin. The piece was one of...
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