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 ...

The Restless Vision” by Jackie Wullschläger.

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

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 ...

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

For an adulatory audience, the eightsome played an encore: an arrangement of the last movement of Fauré’s Requiem (In ...

Michele H. Bogart on the statues of Central Park.

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