Alongside this timeless insight, we are also treated to a healthy dose of Italian nationalism disguised in a Scottish ...

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

In October, it was announced that Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation for more than a decade, would be assuming the position of president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...

I meet the Old Masters dealer Ben Hall at his private Upper East Side gallery and office, which sits in a five-story limestone-faced townhouse, as befits a dealer in venerable paintings. Most of the ...

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 Caravaggesque shuffle. It was not so in seventeenth-century Naples, where ...

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...

The figure of the fool, in the sense linked to the jester and the buffoon, is a subject more eternal than one might think. The introduction to a fascinating new show at the Louvre announces that the ...

As regular readers know, I have reviewed many voice recitals from the Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory. It is a capital place for a voice recital: beautiful and intimate. Not until ...

On The Conservative Effect, 2010–2024: 14 Wasted Years? edited by Anthony Seldon & Tom Egerton.

We tend to think of artistic influence in terms of forebears: artists from one era drawing inspiration from those of earlier ones. Yet contemporaries’ influence on each other can be just as important, ...

Like its predecessor dedicated to a summer with Montaigne, Antoine Compagnon’s lively and charming A Summer with Pascal originated as a series on French radio. It is a work of haute vulgarisation, ...