On literature professors, the art world & a new department at the Louvre.

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...

Beethoven’s middle movement, Largo, is in E major. Bronfman played the opening like a hymn. The music had a religioso feeling ...

Most art lovers know Jusepe de Ribera’s The Club-Footed Boy (1642) in the Louvre, but much of his work can get lost among the ...

I m eet the Old Masters dealer Ben Hall at his private Upper East Side gallery and office, which sits in a five-story ...

Their program was a mixed and appealing one. It included early English songs, by Purcell and Dowland; early Italian songs, by ...

David Platzer on “Louise d’Orléans, First Queen of the Belgians: A Romantic Destiny” at the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly ...

Michele H. Bogart on the statues of Central Park.

the building will be a unique asset for champions of social justice across sectors and geographies—a vibrant, fully ...

Daniel J. Mahoney on “A Summer with Pascal” by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Catherine Porter.

A Model Family” at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, Boston.

Brooke Allen on “All the Rage” by Virginia Nicholson.