The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

James Little, Mr. Domino, 2024, Oil & wax on linen, Petzel, New York. “James Little: Affirmed/Actions” at Petzel, New York ...

The two longest stories, “The Undefeated” and “Fifty Grand,” and the closing piece, “Now I Lay Me,” are weightier. I ...

One is to find out what painting is and the other is to find out how to make a painting.” Now, we can follow the complexities ...

We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials, and saw, in the ...

David Butterfield on leaving Cambridge for Ralston College.

In the title role—that of the trovatore, or troubadour—was Michael Fabiano, the tenor from New Jersey. He sang with beautiful ...

Bernadette sang Sondheim, the title song of Anyone Can Whistle (I believe). She then slinked off the stage, waving goodbye, ...

Teatro alla Scala, Italy’s premier opera house, includes an opera from the country’s pre-Mozart past in its programming each ...

Andrew Stuttaford on fiction by Johan Harstad, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Caroline Blackwood & Michel Houellebecq.

James Bowman on the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

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