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Edgar Degas' 1875 painting Au Café Concert: La Chanson du Chien is part of billionaire Jerry Perenchio's collection being donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art In a gift the Los Angeles County Museum of Art says is the largest in its history, billionaire Jerry Perenchio is donating art worth an estimated ...
At a small exhibit at the Historical Museum of Crete, a visiting artist gazes at an early religious painting by El Greco. "The Baptism of Christ" is a vividly colored, two-dimensional, egg tempera-on-panel work from the second half of the 16th century. But it already showed hints of the style that would later make him one of the Western world's most famous ...
"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Photo by Zoraya Tonel
To act and risk, not to fear... "Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." — Denis Waitley
Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is on display at the National Gallery of Art until Jan. 11. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon/ Courtesy of the National Gallery A century-old teenager is the focus of a musical and an art exhibit in Washington right now. The National Gallery of Art is showing Edgar Degas' statue Little ...