Recent stories of note: “Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation” J. Cabelle Ahn, The Art Newspaper ...

It is not a “big” or “important” work, thank God: plot and meaning are compact like a kernel; characters are realised to the ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Mozart’s overture was spirited but loose—a little sloppy. The rest of the opera was spirited too, and seldom sloppy. In ...

Andsnes started with Debussy, however. He likes Debussy, and he likes playing Debussy at encore time. He is known to do ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance of Heinrich Biber’s “Rosary Sonatas” at Pomona College.

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...

Often, concerts begin with an overture (a natural choice). Last night’s ended with one: the Leonore Overture No. 3, one of ...

McGill and Ax played a recital of Schumann, Schubert, Beethoven, and several Americans. They began with a work that has begun ...

Rachel was crying. I do remember one thing she said in our many conversations, if only because I wrote it down. Either in ...

The legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall ...

To understand a painting, you start by looking. That is enough. But, of course, there are different contexts in which to consider it. There is the history of all painted images, the local artistic ...