We have a nasty habit of assuming art is something that is necessarily obtuse and only accessible and understandable to the monied, educated, and those who have pretensions to be counted as both. Nevertheless, art ...
It wasn’t breakfast at Tiffany’s, but a stroll through Van Cleef & Arpels that is credited with inspiring George Balanchine’s only three-act, non-narrative ballet Jewels. At its New York City Ballet premiere in 1967, Jewels ...