Suzanna Murawski on ignorance, Van Gogh & plaster.

Founded in 1931, the NSO is younger than its celebrated peer orchestras, most of which entered the world in Gilded Age ...

The year 2025 is, according to the city of Aix, “the year of Cézanne.” The artist was born in 1839 and died in 1906, so this ...

Library Gallery, The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth. So we have been hearing a lot of him. Jay plays two pieces by him—two of his best, and most typical. There are also ...

In the last few days, the New York Philharmonic has been conducted by Iván Fischer, the Hungarian. He is one of the Fabulous ...

On the non-binary official language proposed at the University of Oxford.

Though she said it ninety-five years ago, Virginia Woolf’s description of a “bright and animated company of authors who . . . are known by their hats, not merely their poems” surely recalls some ...

But, of course, the Democratic Party is not an educational institution or a corporation or a tax-exempt organization but a ...