Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice, which got its first Dallas Opera performance Friday night at the ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

A painting bought at a garage sale in Minnesota is a previously unknown portrait by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, according to a newly published expert analysis. It was made by Van Gogh during ...

The ascendancy of the castrato singer constitutes one of the more bizarre aspects of European cultural history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From 1650 to 1800 the most sought-after ...

The centerpiece is a portrait of original cast member, castrato Senesino. John Vandenbank’s 1725 painting depicts the singer in character as Bertarido. He is shown in costume, described at the time as ...