David Frum, an author and columnist for The Atlantic: “Above all, we must learn to live in an America where an overwhelming ...
Mozart is the great test of musicians—of violinists, pianists, singers, and conductors. Mozart is what separates the men from ...
Once, at a gallery show I was visiting, the artist pointed to a painting of two gun-toting soldiers and told me it was the ...
George Loomis on “Macbeth” at the Parma Festival Verdi.
The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...
Robert Frank in Dialogue” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Tina Barney has been described as the photographic chronicler of the American upper crust, like Edith Wharton or Louis ...
Bernadette sang Sondheim, the title song of Anyone Can Whistle (I believe). She then slinked off the stage, waving goodbye, ...
James Little, Mr. Domino, 2024, Oil & wax on linen, Petzel, New York. “James Little: Affirmed/Actions” at Petzel, New York ...
Teatro alla Scala, Italy’s premier opera house, includes an opera from the country’s pre-Mozart past in its programming each ...
“Quomodo dicitur Latine laptop, magister?” On the left a herd of goats, and to the right a yet-hungrier herd of wide-eyed tourists, ruminate upon the ancient terrain. I chew over this question as the ...
On a new Library of America volume of Ernest Hemingway’s writings. The outline biography gives details of his marital ups and downs during this time (divorce, remarriage, a second son), his extensive ...