Turner, conversely, invokes an older association with sacrifice, portraying a dead flock of sheep at the foot of the megaliths, with one of the stones catching a bolt of lightning from on high. From ...

On November 3 of last year, Richard Himelfarb, a Hofstra University professor of political science, said of remarks made by one of his colleagues at a faculty meeting that they were “complete word ...

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” by Richard Strauss, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Now, neither classics nor philology is what it used to be. And the combination—classical philology—is in evident trouble. The ...

“Katherine Taylor: Transformed, New Sculptures and Drawings” at Skoto Gallery (through October 24): The conversation between sculptural form and surface is one that Katherine Taylor injects with a ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London on June 25, 2026. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate ...

On Israeli military strategy, stonemasonry, the Declaration of Independence, a 9/11 memorial concert & more from the world of culture.

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

The Gerrit Rietveld Pavilion on the extensive grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum, in Otterlo, the Netherlands, is a modernist icon, a triumph of twentieth-century materials and economical form. Like ...

On recent performances at the Salzburg Festival. Volodos, the Soviet-born pianist, does not play a late Schubert sonata every year, but almost. Does it make any sense to refer to “late Schubert,” ...

Few buildings differ so much in effect between exterior and interior as the new Tang Wing for American Democracy. From the outside, this extension to the New-York Historical Society that opened last ...