Once in a while, an artist who was successful in his time but forgotten soon after is “rediscovered” in a later era. Surprising examples of this are El Greco (1541–1614) and Johannes Vermeer ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance by the early-music ensemble Kontrapunktus.

James Piereson Executive Director and Trustee, John M. Olin Foundation, 1985–2005; the foundation made its last grant and ...

Marguerite was the result of a brief fling between Matisse, then studying painting, and his model Caroline Joblaud. Two and a ...

Ms. Stemme has sung a variety of roles, but is especially known for ones that require heft and stamina. Three of her roles at ...

Mark Lilla’s recent book Ignorance and Bliss, a wandering exploration of the “will to ignorance” reviewed by Costica Bradatan in The Times Literary Supplement, begins with a version of Plato’s famous ...

America, so the received wisdom goes, is home to five great orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of Boston and Chicago, and the orchestras of Philadelphia and Cleveland. To ...

There is considerable irony in the upcoming events centering on Paul Cézanne in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, France. Although today there is a large statue of the artist at the city’s central ...