Beethoven’s middle movement, Largo, is in E major. Bronfman played the opening like a hymn. The music had a religioso feeling ...

Most art lovers know Jusepe de Ribera’s The Club-Footed Boy (1642) in the Louvre, but much of his work can get lost among the ...

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...

David Platzer on “Louise d’Orléans, First Queen of the Belgians: A Romantic Destiny” at the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly ...

I m eet the Old Masters dealer Ben Hall at his private Upper East Side gallery and office, which sits in a five-story ...

Their program was a mixed and appealing one. It included early English songs, by Purcell and Dowland; early Italian songs, by ...

Michele H. Bogart on the statues of Central Park.

the building will be a unique asset for champions of social justice across sectors and geographies—a vibrant, fully ...

Daniel J. Mahoney on “A Summer with Pascal” by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Catherine Porter.

A Model Family” at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, Boston.

Brooke Allen on “All the Rage” by Virginia Nicholson.

Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in ...