This summer, Paris is hosting the Olympic Games for the first time in over a hundred years. The Musée Marmottan Monet (MMM) ...

Back in 2014, Van Zweden’s soloists in the Sinfonia concertante were Sheryl Staples and Cynthia Phelps. The former is the ...

On Richard Strauss’s Salome, directed by Lydia Steier, at the Opéra Bastille.

The next Chopin piece was the Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49. I felt like I was seeing an old friend. When I was coming of ...

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 ...

Probably the least interesting thing about the quietly beautiful collection of Indian art now on view in three galleries at ...

Recent stories of note: “Alcibiades” Armand, D’Angour, The Critic The wisest man in all of ancient Athens—Socrates, namely—met Alcibiades as a young man. After their encounter, the philosopher is said ...

John Trumbull, George Washington, 1780, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as featured in Glorious Lessons by Richard Brookhiser. Nonfiction: The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of ...