On the Scottish Highlands, educating for virtue, Plato, David Dubal & more from the world of culture.

Now playing at the Met is Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra. It premiered in San Francisco in 2022. We have had an American opera ...

From the audience—onstage and out in the seats—there was considerable appreciation, and Kissin sat down for his first encore: ...

Nathan C. Stewart on a recent performance by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

Suzanna Murawski on Pascal, German art & Magna Carta.

M. P. Kennedy on a performance by the early-music ensemble Kontrapunktus.

James Piereson Executive Director and Trustee, John M. Olin Foundation, 1985–2005; the foundation made its last grant and ...

Marguerite was the result of a brief fling between Matisse, then studying painting, and his model Caroline Joblaud. Two and a ...

Nonfiction: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World, by Selena Wisnom (University of Chicago Press): From the Library of Alexandria to the pages of Fahrenheit 451 ...

Savonnerie Manufactory, after designs by Charles Le Brun, Carpet with Fame and Fortitude, ca. 1668–85, Knotted and cut wool pile, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. “Louis XIV’s Savonnerie Carpets: ...