While admiring his luscious renditions of deli or haberdashery counters, typical museumgoers (and even some art critics) are ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship on February 27, 2025. I was recently invited to address the question “Can ...

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Nathan C. Stewart on a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw,” at the Spoleto Festival.

Kyle Smith on "Angry Alan," by Penelope Skinner at Studio Seaview.

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post ...

Robert Steven Mack on historical recreations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater.

He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

Modern France has several such books. Perhaps the most infamous is Jean Raspail’s apocalyptic novel of mass migration, The Camp of the Saints. Since its first publication in 1973, the novel has ...

J us t 150 years ago, in 1869, Tolstoy published the final installment of War and Peace, often regarded as the greatest of all novels. In his time, Tolstoy was known as a nyetovshchik —someone who ...