All the while, bronze figures in the original sense were still being produced by some artists. These were attempts to ...

The Berliners’ sound was rich, plump, and Brahmsian. Nézet-Séguin, as usual, evidenced his love of music—his unabashed, ...

Last night, the Metropolitan Opera gave an excellent performance of Tannhäuser, Wagner’s opera from 1845. The Met uses a ...

At Christmastime, as at Easter, Handel’s Messiah is the oratorio with pride of place. But what’s wrong with Bach’s Christmas Oratorio? Or his Easter Oratorio, for that matter? Last night, Carnegie ...

In addition to featuring dozens of pieces by the titular artist, it displays this work side by side with pictures by the ...

The Petit Palais’ current exhibition “Modern Paris: 1905–1925” is the third of a trilogy, preceded by the celebratory ...

George Loomis on a performance of Don Giovanni conducted by Riccardo Muti, at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo.

Nocturne (1896), believed to be inspired by evening scenes in the symbolist writer Édouard Dujardin’s 1892 play Le Chevalier ...

From the linguistic point of view, “minimum means: maximum meaning” is a highly effective sound bite. It embodies the ...

Stephen Antonakos, Untitled Drawing (#2), October 11, 2010, Multicolor pencil & color pencil on vellum, New York Studio School, New York. Photo: Jeffrey Sturges. Stephen Antonakos, Untitled Drawing ...

Frederick Seidel’s gabby, gallivanting poems have come a long way from his indentured servitude to Robert Lowell. His first book, Final Solutions (1963)—the title just the sort of toxic pun to which ...

Editors’ note: This past October, Benjamin Riley, the Managing Editor of The New Criterion, spoke by telephone with the architectural historian Clive Aslet and the photographer Dylan Thomas from their ...