Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Parsifal,” at the San Francisco Opera.

An Ode to Finland,” at the Petit Palais, Paris.

Woman, Queen, and Legend,” by Lindy Grant.

M y parents were not fans of Grandma Moses (1860–1961), the octogenarian painting farmwife discovered and promoted by my ...

William Logan on recently published poetry by Rosanna Warren, Moya Cannon, John Koethe, Rebecca Watts, Henri Cole & Wendy ...

One of Thatcher’s most famous mots was the observation that “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of ...

The activist refrain of doing the work is familiar enough. The “scholarly activity of reading texts together,” of course, ...

In any case, a work of his was featured on a program of the New York Philharmonic—an orchestra of which he was the music ...

The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso,” by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi.

On “Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection,” at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, ...

By 1920 the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum and a close friend of Cushing, garnered ...

When 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, it ...