“Early Modigliani Portrait Discovered in French Antique Shop” Daniel Cassady, ARTnews ...

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the Palm Beach Symphony.

After a decade as the company’s chief conductor, David Stern (son of Isaac) has been deservedly promoted to Palm Beach’s Ari ...

On Master Drawings New York, Hokusai, Beethoven’s quartets, a Long Island sarcophagus & more from the world of culture.

The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

It’s often said that an immortal monkey, sitting at a typewriter with no deadline and jabbing at random, will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. For a human being who speaks English ...

Last night was Wagner night at the New York Philharmonic. Did they do Act I of Die Walküre? No, there were no singers. They played Lorin Maazel’s Ring synthesis—his “Ring without Words.” This is a ...

For most of us, bands of violent robbers in the desert are thankfully the stuff of old Westerns. But they are an occupational hazard for Ruth Shady, an archaeologist who in 1994 discovered a ...

I went to the Metropolitan Opera last night somewhat nervous. Onstage would be Tosca. In two of the main roles would be veteran stars: Sondra Radvanovsky (Tosca) and Bryn Terfel (Scarpia). They have ...