Romania Nadia Comaneci in action during uneven bars at Montreal Forum. Montreal, Canada 7/17/1976--8/1/1976

Two hundred young dancers have come to New York to audition for the prestigious American Ballet Theatre school. They've dreamed of this moment, but all the desire in the world counts for nothing. The judges look only at physique and movement. Who will make it? Who will get cut?

The studio and the artist are powerful together. Here we bring together a collection of 125 artists in their studios and workshops.

Caroline Denervaud defines herself as a “performer and plastic artist”. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1978, Caroline has since moved to Paris, where she generates work which meditates on the physicality of her body.

During this month’s lunar cycle we will begin to experience the unfolding of our new life’s direction, shifting from crisis-in-action towards clarity and flow.

Explore hoggardb's 1891 photos on Flickr!

I am still obsessing over an exhibition Dan and I saw last weekend. A colleague of mine at KCRW invited us to the opening of the exhibition Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth at the Fowl…

'The enemy in sight' was one of three paintings Septimus Power exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1916. Painted before he was commissioned as an official war artist, it is an imaginative construction that owes as much to ...

Haunting photography series explores many versions of the self

White body fan, 1972 performance by Rebecca Horn, German visual artist #womensart

German artist Hannah Höch was a true radical: a trailblazer of photomontage who started out writing for women's handicraft mags, and the first lady of dada – though they constantly tried to elbow her out. Here's a selection of her best images

The troops at the head of an army are called the vanguard, and that word can also mean 'the forefront of an action or movement.' It was vanguard, rather than vanward, that led the way on the route

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1948 Buckminster Fuller Architecture Class. The Venetian Blind Dome. Image

Ruth Asawa is best known for her wizardry in weaving copper wire into enchanting, diaphanous forms. Her work, once at the vanguard of modernist sculpture, is still widely celebrated. This month, Asawa’s gossamer creations...

Meet the early Fauves. They were called Les Nabis. A bunch of artists who bridged the gap between Impressionism and early Modern 20th-Century art. You know the kind of stuff: Fauvism, Cubism, even Art-Deco, almost up-as-far-as Abstract Expressionism – but that came much later. Les Nabis (the Prophets) was a club of artists including Pierre … Continue reading "Hocus Pocus: Paul Ranson’s Occult Paintings of Witches and their Familiars"

Photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, subject of a new Paris exhibition, excelled both in fashion and the avant-garde.

[Musée du Louvre, Paris - Oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm]

A major survey exhibition of Carolee Schneemann’s work looks at the artist’s masterful experimentations, across mediums of performance, installation, film and multimedia.

Hannah Höch was an artist who embodied the complex, contradictory nature of our world. Her beguiling photomontage work, at casual glance, could resemble the random pasting of a child’s scrapbook…

From the following summer, Britain, mainland Europe and a large part of the rest of the world changed for ever

Hi everyone! Here are some anatomical studies (classic dance, hip hop dance and pole dance) and some moleskine sketches. (I ♥ Moleskine) You can see all anatomical studies on my Facebook Page. Enjoy!

Don't get in your head. Just let it flow.

The history of Champagne coupes -- our favorite retro-chic glassware -- is sexier than you'd think.