Now playing at the Met is Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra. It premiered in San Francisco in 2022. We have had an American opera ...

From the audience—onstage and out in the seats—there was considerable appreciation, and Kissin sat down for his first encore: ...

Nathan C. Stewart on a recent performance by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

M. P. Kennedy on a performance by the early-music ensemble Kontrapunktus.

Suzanna Murawski on Pascal, German art & Magna Carta.

On Roman legends, the Savonnerie carpets, Grand Central Atelier, Dance Theatre of Harlem & more from the world of culture.

Once in a while, an artist who was successful in his time but forgotten soon after is “rediscovered” in a later era.

James Piereson Executive Director and Trustee, John M. Olin Foundation, 1985–2005; the foundation made its last grant and ...

Marguerite was the result of a brief fling between Matisse, then studying painting, and his model Caroline Joblaud. Two and a ...

Nonfiction: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World, by Selena Wisnom (University of Chicago Press): From the Library of Alexandria to the pages of Fahrenheit 451 ...