André’s exhibition space is limited, and many of Tintoretto’s large-scale masterpieces can only be seen on Venetian walls. Nevertheless, there is enough of a selection to give more than a taste of ...

On the writer, occasioned by the publication of D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939, by G. S. Smith. Of the millions put to death in the Soviet Union ...

Eliot put it in his poem “Little Gidding,” “to be redeemed from fire by fire.” Often, Gioia’s narrative poems that dramatize ...

On a memoir of resilience, the Bayeux Tapestry, the “Emperor” concerto, a Tom Stoppard play & more from the world of culture.

One novel that arose from the disastrous impact of the Second World War that will endure, I believe, is Evelyn Waugh’s last ...

On a performance of Le siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro. Unfortunately, the festival’s lightweight production by Davide Livermore was often at odds with the opera’s seriousness.

The Metropolitan Opera is not an “ABC company”—but it does not ignore A, B, or C. In fact, the Met is staging both A and B this season. B opened on Friday night. Last Tuesday night, the Met opened its ...

“Make something new, children,” was Richard Wagner’s instruction to a rising generation of musicians whose work struck him as mired in conventionality. He offered this line rhetorically in a 1852 ...

Michael Gorra’s The Storytellers: Reading the Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction is among the most beautiful—and wonderful—things that have ever happened to this reader. It’s the work of ...

Aperture’s headquarters on Columbus Avenue & Seventy-eighth Street. Photo: Aperture. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic. Photo: New York Philharmonic. “Dudamel Conducts Mahler & Tania ...