Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

“Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus est natus.” It stays there for a while ...

The scale of the Marron Family Atrium allows us to foreground the ambition that defined Frankenthaler’s work,” says Samantha Friedman, a curator in moma’s Department of Drawings and Prints, who ...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so the adman sayeth. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) would beg to differ. The Impressionists were not the spontaneous image-makers they were ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.

But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...

On April 1917: The Red Wheel, Node IV, Book 1, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Clare Kitson. Once again, “the historical novel turns into dramatized history,” based on a faithful “depiction ...

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

T he Declaration of Independence was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. “We hold these truths to be ...

Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College, ...