On literature professors, the art world & a new department at the Louvre.

Most art lovers know Jusepe de Ribera’s The Club-Footed Boy (1642) in the Louvre, but much of his work can get lost among the ...

Beethoven’s middle movement, Largo, is in E major. Bronfman played the opening like a hymn. The music had a religioso feeling ...

David Platzer on “Louise d’Orléans, First Queen of the Belgians: A Romantic Destiny” at the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly ...

I m eet the Old Masters dealer Ben Hall at his private Upper East Side gallery and office, which sits in a five-story ...

Their program was a mixed and appealing one. It included early English songs, by Purcell and Dowland; early Italian songs, by ...

The world did not end on time. The Doomsday Clock, tightly wound by members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences since 1947 ...

The Iowa poll is (or was) a highly respected operation whose results could not be easily dismissed. The poll has been a ...

Michele H. Bogart on the statues of Central Park.

the building will be a unique asset for champions of social justice across sectors and geographies—a vibrant, fully ...

Daniel J. Mahoney on “A Summer with Pascal” by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Catherine Porter.

The Berlin Philharmonic has many standouts. Stefan Dohr is one of the best horn players in the world, and one of the best, ...