If you’re in an opera orchestra, it’s natural to want to get out of the pit and play a concert now and then—a concert of ...

Duo Exhibition,” at the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel.

Jay Nordlinger on an all-Schubert recital by Lise Davidsen, soprano, and James Ballieu, piano.

On June 9, the Friends of The New Criterion gathered at the offices of the magazine for a book party with Nicholas O’Connell, the author of Crush: My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker. The New Criterion ...

This week, Italy’s Ministry of Culture announced that the country has acquired the François Tomb, the fourth-century B.C. Etruscan burial chamber prized for its well-preserved wall paintings, all of ...

Semyon Bychkov is a very good conductor. The New York Philharmonic is a very good orchestra. Last night’s was not a good concert. On the program was a single work—one of the greatest works of music, ...

On a recital by the pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in Carnegie Hall.

What is New York’s greatest unrealized work of art? An argument can be made for Riverside Playground. This sprawling sculptural landscape, designed for what today remains an unremarkable hillside in ...

The question is, finally: how could there be an effective political art? Is not the whole thing a chimaera, a dream, incompatible with the basic conditions of artistic production in the nineteenth ...