“Exceptionally Well-Preserved Anglo-Saxon Sword Found in UK ” George Nelson, ARTnews ...

Drawings from Chatsworth House” at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

On a recent concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk.

Will there always be an England? Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has put the answer to that question very much in doubt. The prime minister’s strategy seems to be to look around for dystopian novels and ...

The works shown in New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala typically, and perhaps unsurprisingly, elevate style (of ...

A Christmas selection: songs old and newer, performed by Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Heidi Grant Murphy, Odetta, Mel Tormé, et glorious al.

When one thinks of black paintings, Goya often comes to mind, with his morbid series of pictures done directly on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo. But Mark Rothko had his own series of black ...

On Trotsky, Diego Rivera & David Alfaro Siqueiros in Mexico City.

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

Everyone knows about Aesop and his fables, but few have ever read straight through any serious collection of them, never mind Ben Edwin Perry’s unsurpassed Aesopica of 1952, which assembles 725, along ...