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 ...

T he elder apostles of George Balanchine often gripe that his ballets, especially when staged by smaller companies, fall ...

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...

Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...

Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.

Over the past twenty years or so, two titans of the Renaissance have been illuminated by capacious, legendary exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The shows “Leonardo da Vinci, Master ...

No sport—not even boxing or baseball or tennis—has inspired a literature as impressive as cricket has, and this may be in part because the earliest competitive years of cricket were dominated by ...

On a “stolen” painting, Mark Twain & Erik Satie.

Just ten days before Robert A. M. Stern died, I received New York 2020, the final volume of his series of exhaustive and illuminating histories of New York architecture. I wrestled the 1,488-page ...

The first time I heard David Bull’s name, he was being described as “legendary.” It was the 1990s, and my boss at Sotheby’s, the late Charles S. Moffett, was talking about David’s incredible range as ...