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 ...

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 ...

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

I t is with great sadness that we report the death of Bernie Marcus, who died last month in Boca Raton, Florida, at the age ...

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

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

The world did not end on time. The Doomsday Clock, tightly wound by members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences since 1947 ...

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

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

Infinite are the numbers of fools,” as one of the exhibition’s wall quotes from the Douay-Rheims Bible (1582) has it. The ...

King Lear typically runs three and a half hours or so, and as Dr. Johnson said of Milton’s Paradise Lost, none ever wished it ...