Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

Using Cicero’s prosecutions and defenses as a sort of historical index for the turbulent late Republic, Osgood bears witness ...

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

On French wallpaper, restitution & digital technology.

“I was asked to write a five-minute orchestra work expressing the current world situation and to do it as soon as possible.” That is an interesting, possibly daunting, assignment. What was “the ...

Sabin Howard has been at the center of a battle over sculpture for over three decades. I first wrote about him in this space nearly twenty years ago, when I paid a visit to his studio in the South ...

On Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, by Rhodri Lewis.

On The Notebook: A History of Writing on Paper, by Roland Allen. Roland Allen’s fascinating The Notebook: A History of Writing on Paper is full of these kinds of multidisciplinary insights, connecting ...