Founded in 1931, the NSO is younger than its celebrated peer orchestras, most of which entered the world in Gilded Age ...

The year 2025 is, according to the city of Aix, “the year of Cézanne.” The artist was born in 1839 and died in 1906, so this ...

Library Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

In the last few days, the New York Philharmonic has been conducted by Iván Fischer, the Hungarian. He is one of the Fabulous ...

Thomas Philbrick on a concert by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

“‘El Greco. Santo Domingo el Antiguo’ Review: Awe-Inspiring Altarpieces” A. J. Goldmann, The Wall Street Journal ...

Last month, the University of Oxford announced in the weekly Gazette a series of proposed “changes to the Conduct of Ceremonies in Congregation, and certain other Ceremonies.” Among these changes are ...

Palm Beach Opera takes a more conservative path in its productions. This Figaro, with sets and costumes by Leslie Travers, ...

The Supreme Court ruled two years ago, in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, that colleges and universities may not use race as a factor in admissions lest they ...

Nonfiction: Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars, by Peter Godwin (Summit Books): Exit Wounds, the elegiac new memoir by the essayist Peter Godwin, bills itself as a “story of love, ...