Last night, the New York Philharmonic offered a program with an accent on the mysterious and the French. Guest-conducting was ...

Dominic Green on a recent production of “The Merchant of Venice.” ...

In the early 2000s, we often collaborated with the Studio School on lectures, panels, and symposia, in which many of which ...

“H ow do you know what someone wants to be called?” A little girl—or at least she would appear to be a girl—ponders this ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the threats to civilization & its future.

His works are antic, hers austere, yet these independent-minded sculptors are united by their fearless pursuit of personal ...

An Idea and Its History,” by J. C. D. Clark.

In Luke Stegemann’s perceptive “new biography” of the kaleidoscopic capital of Spain, he chides Hemingway for possibly being ...

V is itors to The Frick Collection often ask how Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) became a collector. How did such a ...

Muse to Power,” by Hugo Vickers.

Kyle Smith on “Gypsy,” “Death Becomes Her” & “Hell’s Kitchen.” ...

This dialectic is partly a partisan political drama, partly an economic salvage effort, partly a chapter in that long-running ...