Sometime in the early 20th century, when Russian dancer Waslaw Nijinsky began painting, a contemporary newspaper article claimed his artwork had caught the attention of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

Marchesa Luisa Casati bankrupted herself on gold-painted servants, diamond-leashed cheetahs and electric dresses—and influenced every major fashion designer of the 20th century. The National Gallery ...

When the late 20th century’s most famous ballet dancer plays the early 20th century’s most famous ballet dancer, he doesn’t dance. “There’s no dance per se,” says Mikhail Baryshnikov of “Letter to a ...

Vaslav Nijinsky is reputed to have been the most stupendous dancer after Terpsichore, the Greek goddess of dance. We have no moving pictures of this real-life Russian god’s performances, just ...

John McLaughlin Paintings: Total Abstraction at LACMA is illuminating, literally. The phenonmenological and symbolic suggestions of the non-color of white radiate in painting after painting. Even in ...

MONTE CARLO — The fourth biennial Nijinsky Awards, considered the Oscars of the dance world, were presented Thursday on a stage where, nearly a century ago, legendary dancer and choreographer Vaslav ...

There is no way to know exactly what dance was like in antiquity. There are accounts of it in writings by ancient authors, such as Lucian (c. 120–192), a satirist of imperial Rome. The Ballets Russes ...