M. P. Kennedy on a performance by the early-music ensemble Kontrapunktus.

James Piereson Executive Director and Trustee, John M. Olin Foundation, 1985–2005; the foundation made its last grant and ...

Marguerite was the result of a brief fling between Matisse, then studying painting, and his model Caroline Joblaud. Two and a ...

One of our leading opera singers gave a recital in Carnegie Hall on Friday night. She is Nina Stemme, the Swedish soprano. Soprano, yes. But in her recital, she often sounded like a mezzo. Even a ...

Suzanna Murawski on ignorance, Van Gogh & plaster.

America, so the received wisdom goes, is home to five great orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of Boston and Chicago, and the orchestras of Philadelphia and Cleveland. To ...