In the tangled narrative of 20th century art, there is no more colourful or influential figure than Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. The son of a bankrupt Russian vodka distiller, Diaghilev would reinvent ...

Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes sparked a revolution in taste after the first world war, taking modernism out of the salon and into the music hall. The splendid exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On what would have been his 145th birthday, Google celebrates the life and work of Russian visionary Sergei Diaghilev On what ...

The Russian Renaissance is a curiously lovely thing to look back at over one’s shoulder, blending as it does priceless artistic magic with a touch of eerie futility and the pathos of its impending ...

If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

Terrence McNally’s ‘Fire and Air’ focuses on the impresario Diaghilev’s romantic relationship with the legendary Nijinsky, and clashing themes of love, need, and ambition. Senior Editor and Writer A ...

Like Nero’s or Napoleon’s, the name of Serge Diaghilev is bandied about without much regard to the actualities of the historical figure: recently I spotted Malcolm McLaren described as “the Diaghilev ...

The most recent reassessment of the belle-epoque Russian impresario distills his life down to its aromatic essence. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

Historical geniuses are tricky beasts to dramatize. Last year, Scott Carter’s attempt to revive the corpses of Dickens, Tolstoy, and Thomas Jefferson fell flat at Primary Stages. Now, in the world ...

There is no correlation between the durability of a story and its veracity. One of the most persistent myths about Diaghilev concerns his large head and the role it supposedly played in his birth.

Harper’s Bazaar fashion magazine called upon Rochester Institute of Technology design professor and scholar Roger Remington to curate an international exhibition about legendary magazine art director ...

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