Once in a while, an artist who was successful in his time but forgotten soon after is “rediscovered” in a later era. Surprising examples of this are El Greco (1541–1614) and Johannes Vermeer ...

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) is one of France’s most famous artists, but his only daughter, Marguerite (1894–1982), is almost unknown, despite her being her father’s most frequent model and, at times, ...

James Piereson Executive Director and Trustee, John M. Olin Foundation, 1985–2005; the foundation made its last grant and ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance by the early-music ensemble Kontrapunktus.

Ms. Stemme has sung a variety of roles, but is especially known for ones that require heft and stamina. Three of her roles at ...

Nonfiction: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World, by Selena Wisnom (University of Chicago Press): From the Library of Alexandria to the pages of Fahrenheit 451 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Suzanna Murawski on ignorance, Van Gogh & plaster.