This color film reprises the female impersonator Adrian's nightclub act of the same name: "'Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils' introduced the Club 82's new season to New Yorkers, in 1958. It was ...

Jewish performers and spectators have long been bewitched by Salome, an otherwise obscure minor character name-checked by the historian Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews. As a new study by Cecily ...

The tale of Salome, the Judean princess who demanded the head of John the Baptist from her stepfather, King Herod, is well-known, not only for its horrifying events, but for its scandalous Dance of ...

Before Salome danced for the head of the Baptist, it seems the goddess Ishtar achieved entrance to the Underworld by dancing at each of the seven gates of Hell. Dropping a veil each time, she entered ...

Art and life are inextricably entangled in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, a wildly ambitious, visually intoxicating reinterpretation of the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, that proves to possess almost as ...

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This canvas, on view at The Ringling, is the second of two that Robert Henri painted in 1909 depicting soprano Mademoiselle Voclezca in the title role in Richard Strauss's opera Salome. (The other ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...