Alongside this timeless insight, we are also treated to a healthy dose of Italian nationalism disguised in a Scottish ...

In October, it was announced that Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation for more than a decade, would be assuming the position of president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...

I meet the Old Masters dealer Ben Hall at his private Upper East Side gallery and office, which sits in a five-story limestone-faced townhouse, as befits a dealer in venerable paintings. Most of the ...

Not only English departments but also contemporary artists and curators have rendered themselves irrelevant, or so Dean Kissick writes in Harper’s. As Laddaga says of literature professors, Kissick ...

Most art lovers know Jusepe de Ribera’s The Club-Footed Boy (1642) in the Louvre, but much of his work can get lost among the Caravaggesque shuffle. It was not so in seventeenth-century Naples, where ...

The classic format of an orchestral concert is overture–concerto–symphony. Last night at the New York Philharmonic, we had concerto–symphony. The former piece was the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, ...

The figure of the fool, in the sense linked to the jester and the buffoon, is a subject more eternal than one might think. The introduction to a fascinating new show at the Louvre announces that the ...

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...

As regular readers know, I have reviewed many voice recitals from the Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory. It is a capital place for a voice recital: beautiful and intimate. Not until ...

We tend to think of artistic influence in terms of forebears: artists from one era drawing inspiration from those of earlier ones. Yet contemporaries’ influence on each other can be just as important, ...

On The Conservative Effect, 2010–2024: 14 Wasted Years? edited by Anthony Seldon & Tom Egerton.

We were planning to ignore the predictable episodes of narcissistic pseudo-outrage on college campuses following the election. For one thing, it is our sense that the volume and intensity of such ...