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 ...
On railroad graphics, Revolutionary-era writing, chamber music, the Glimmerglass Festival & more from the world of culture.
Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...
The Muse-inspired poet Hesiod, who lived very long ago, but still in the middle of things, sang of cosmic beginnings and human ends. His Theogony relates that everything comes from Chaos: a primal, ...
Paris’s Petit Palais makes a point of selecting artists for exhibition who are largely foreign to contemporary France and yet whose art was influenced by the School of Paris of the nineteenth and ...
Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.
Mark the uncanny hand of coincidence. When I began thinking about putting together a conference about the legacy of Russell Kirk last spring, I knew that we were in the middle of his centenary. We ...
The largest of all Frank Lloyd Wright’s living rooms from his early prairie houses has just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, far from its original site in the exclusive Minneapolis suburb of ...
The young Yugoslavian pianist Ivo Pogorelich, born in 1958, has been a stormy petrel on the international music scene since his succès de scandale at the 1980 Chopin contest in Warsaw. There, though ...
On Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Met.