On Perpetua, Rudolf II, the Croatian coast, New York fountains & more from the world of culture.

The endowments came into being in 1965, under Lyndon Johnson. It was not until the Nixon years, however, that they got their ...

A Biography,” by Maurizio Serra, translated by Marshall Yarbrough.

Heather Mac Donald on the new ballet by Lincoln Jones & Alma Deutscher, premiered by American Contemporary Ballet.

Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.

Foreboding as the museum is, its third-floor space for temporary exhibitions is superb. An open room of some 15,000 square ...

Karen Wilkin on “Caravaggio 2025” at the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Rome.

For the nation’s leading classical ensembles, the summer months promise no great respite, but they do portend a change in ...

Brown, sixty-seven, has long been known as one of Britain’s finest satirists and comic writers through his work for Private ...

there is a land fertile and fair, encompassed by the waves and blessed with a multitude of human beings past all counting, ...

On Boccaccio: A Biography, by Marco Santagata, translated by Emlyn Eisenach.

As an art historian in the field of Dutch and Flemish paintings, I was driven by instinct to dismiss this book on its ...