Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship on February 27, 2025. I was recently invited to address the question “Can ...

On Ben Shahn, The Winter’s Tale, George Dance the Younger, Fraunces Tavern & more from the world of culture. John Charles Felix Rossi, Portrait bust of George Dance the Younger, ca. 1824-25, Plaster, ...

The merchants of Venice by Max Sligh On “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

This year’s Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, featured a world-debut production of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera The Turn of the Screw, headed up by Rodula Gaitanou (stage direction), ...

“Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art,” which opened at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco on March 22, is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and curated by ...

There were many photographs and videos taken of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after a container ship struck one of its piers on the night of March 26, 2024, causing portions of the bridge to collapse ...

Periodization, for all the fleeting satisfaction it provides, can cause severe headaches for a historian. “Among the many and various dangers that beset the would-be writer of history,” writes John ...

Caravaggio, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1598, Oil on canvas, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. On view in “Caravaggio 2025,” at Palazzo Barberini, Rome (through July 6).

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Jay Nordlinger in conversation with Daniel Asia.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 Paul Pines (1941–2018).

Ricky Ian Gordon has written a cycle of songs about flowers. In this episode, we hear one of them. Rachmaninoff wrote a song called “Lilacs.” We hear that, too. Bach opens his Goldberg Variations with ...