Don Hatcher, a technical illustrator and land-and-seascape painter living in Newport, Washington, used that photograph as the ...

Nonfiction: Miracula: Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome, by Paul Chrystal (Reaktion): The efforts of a Robert Ripley or the Weekly World News are more recent examples, but the ...

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

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

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

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

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

Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), who appears at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris down the hall from an exhibition celebrating Matisse and his enchanting daughter Marguerite, will be a revelation for those ...

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 ...

W he n Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, ...

David Paul’s translations of Paul Valéry appear in The Collected Works of Paul Valéry (The Bollingen Series). He has also translated the poetry of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud.