The Western Range makes up one third of the museum’s footprint and is home to the collections from ancient Egypt, Greece, and ...

The Met had assembled a very capable cast, too. In the title role was Michael Sumuel, a bass-baritone from Texas. He has a ...

M. P. Kennedy on a program of early music performed by Musica Angelica.

Recent stories of note: “Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation” J. Cabelle Ahn, The Art Newspaper ...

Mozart’s overture was spirited but loose—a little sloppy. The rest of the opera was spirited too, and seldom sloppy. In ...

Andsnes started with Debussy, however. He likes Debussy, and he likes playing Debussy at encore time. He is known to do ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance of Heinrich Biber’s “Rosary Sonatas” at Pomona College.

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...

To understand a painting, you start by looking. That is enough. But, of course, there are different contexts in which to consider it. There is the history of all painted images, the local artistic ...

Robert Frost has not been lucky in his biographers. Between 1966 and 1976, Frost’s designated biographer, Lawrance Thompson, published a vilifying three-volume account that depicted Frost as so ...

The Scottish poet and Anglican priest Andrew Young (1885–1971) was once called “the pet of the cognoscenti.” This is how Kenneth Allott referred to him in a roundup of verse plays for New Verse that ...