Abraham Walkowitz, watercolor of Isadora Duncan in a dance pose (1906-27) (all images courtesy the New York Public Library) Almost all of Walkowitz’s illustrations were left as raw sketches, although ...

“Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his diary in 1874. “Out of all the subjects in modern life he has ...

“Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance 1900-1955” opens at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum and dance performances by the Jose Limón Dance Company, Santa Barbara Dance Theater and ...

Alvin Ailey’s performing arts transcend the traditional boundaries of dance. The seminal dancer and choreographer created a living history of movement imbued with cultural memory and personal ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The choreographer took a barefoot leap for modern dance 100 years ago. Her influence continues to reverberate. Credit...George Platt Lynes/Jerome Robbins Dance Division, via The ...

"Paris Review," a 1967 screenprint by Venezuelan American artist Marisol, is on view in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibition "A Decade of Pop Prints and Multiples, 1962–1972: The Frank ...

In 1929 an American critic, Henry McBride, observed that “the centre of the world has shifted” from Paris to New York. America did not just have cultural capital—it was becoming the West’s cultural ...