Masterpiece’ is a lexical term today, which connotes ‘a great work of Art of any genre’ in the world. At times in common practice, when presenting a work of Art, notwithstanding the absence of its ...

At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” ...

If you ever stroll through Florence on a warm evening, you will know precisely what I mean when I say that the city is pure ...

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, has withstood war, terror, and ...

Botticelli’s Primavera is a visually stunning mythological painting that cleverly uses philosophical ideas about love and beauty. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Botticelli, Michelangelo, and ...

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian is the world’s largest research and museum complex, with 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park, and various research ...

Stefano Tonchi, Editorial Director of Harper’s Bazaar Italia, reflects on a secular pilgrimage during the Jubilee summer, traveling through Italy from north to south—between history, art, and contempo ...

Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ripe to ask what we actually know, and how that knowledge should impinge on ...

The Louvre welcomed 8.7 million visitors last year — more than double what its infrastructure was designed to accommodate.

For him, his art was infused with responsibility. ... This lies at the heart of Western civilization — the compelling love of the self-evident truths that make a civil order possible.

Here is another manifestation of that prior worldview: the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida, currently running at the Met (see the May 2025 issue of The New Criterion).