

You won’t see any tutus here, but instead amazing, almost cartoon-like realizations of Chagall’s artwork. But it is the costumes that really steal the show. Thompson, is an exciting opportunity to see 41 costumes and nearly 100 designs. , adapted from an earlier exhibition at the Montreal Music of Art and curated by Yuval Sharon and Jason H. Chagall’s work in ballet and opera, however, did not begin until he and his wife Bella arrived in the U.S.

Petersburg, Russia, to study art, apprenticing under famed Ballets Russes designer Leon Bakst. Marc Chagall (1887–1985), was born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal in Belarus. I knew Marc Chagall primarily for his sumptuous blue swirling paintings featuring violin-playing goats, his incredible ceiling at the Paris Opéra’s Palais Garnier, and murals at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, so I was intrigued to see his work with ballet. I am a self-confessed costume nerd who really needs little persuasion to travel nearly 3,000 miles to see a costume exhibition-which is what I did when I set off for California for the new exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage.
