When, in his essay “The American Action Painters,” Harold Rosenberg described the “encounter” at the heart of the new ...

Jay Nordlinger on the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in the Mahler Third at Carnegie Hall.

Nathan C. Stewart is the Associate Director of the William H. Ralston Listening Library and Archive at the University of the ...

Max Ernst was inspired by the tradition of German Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich. André Breton, Manifesto of ...

Two other artists whose work has recently attracted attention also anchored the show. Although Henri Martin and Jakob ...

Paul du Quenoy on a recital by the baritone Lucas Meachem for Vocal Arts D.C.

Toby Guise on the fifth Transylvanian Book Festival in and around Richiș, Romania.

The Editors on Britishisms, Brahms, Richard Morris Hunt, Fifth Avenue & more from the world of culture.

It must have been an exciting day at work each time a Customs and Border Protection agent intercepted a smuggled Egyptian artifact at JFK Airport. Thirteen in total came through (with another seized ...

On Balzac’s Paris by Eric Hazan & City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by Mike Rapport.