Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

On a performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, at the Spoleto Festival.

Robert Steven Mack on historical recreations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater.

Kyle Smith on "Angry Alan," by Penelope Skinner at Studio Seaview.

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post ...

He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

The Tin Angel is a new opera by Daniel Asia, the American composer born in 1953. It is based on a novel of the same name by ...

The Leonard A. Lauder Collection.” Highlights from Cooper’s collection included Georges Braque’s Trees at Estaque (1908), a ...

Jay Nordlinger on songs about flowers, etc.

In recent days, the music world—classical and popular—has lost Alfred Brendel and Brian Wilson. Jay pays due tribute. He has other selections as well—beginning with a summer song, refreshing on a hot ...

I should like to do anything I could,” wrote Bailey, “to help Lt. Zeph Stewart, and if he is coming to England, I hope he ...

An excerpt from Heather Mac Donald’s acceptance speech at the 2025 Edmund Burke Award Gala. Read the complete speech.