David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.
At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...
Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...
The Muse-inspired poet Hesiod, who lived very long ago, but still in the middle of things, sang of cosmic beginnings and human ends. His Theogony relates that everything comes from Chaos: a primal, ...
Paris’s Petit Palais makes a point of selecting artists for exhibition who are largely foreign to contemporary France and yet whose art was influenced by the School of Paris of the nineteenth and ...
The presentation of retrospective exhibitions of the work of obscure artists has become an obsession for museums, with curators drawing in a public hungry to discover the next big thing. But Robin ...
Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.
Mark the uncanny hand of coincidence. When I began thinking about putting together a conference about the legacy of Russell Kirk last spring, I knew that we were in the middle of his centenary. We ...
The largest of all Frank Lloyd Wright’s living rooms from his early prairie houses has just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, far from its original site in the exclusive Minneapolis suburb of ...
The young Yugoslavian pianist Ivo Pogorelich, born in 1958, has been a stormy petrel on the international music scene since his succès de scandale at the 1980 Chopin contest in Warsaw. There, though ...
Roger Kimball writes: With the death of David Horowitz at the age of eighty-six on April 29, America lost not only one of its most passionate, well-informed, and effective critics of the Left but also ...