Grace Hartigan began her art career free of the past. She had no technical training, education in art history, or particular ...

On Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Salzburg Festival.

On Greek athletics, authorial cats, the licensing racket, Cretan painting & more from the world of culture.

Lady Pamela Berry (1914–82), also known as Lady Hartwell after her husband, Michael Berry, the owner of The Daily Telegraph ...

Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night) has everything one could wish for in a work of fin de ...

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.

Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Jacobitism has been written about as much by the historians as it has by the poets, and the Scottish historian Allan I. MacInnes is hardly unaware of the challenge he is setting himself in making a ...

Robert Steven Mack on a Prometheus statue, Henry James & Hannah Arendt.

Bennett Tucker on “Pinchas Litvinovsky: You Must Choose Life—That is Art,” at Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem.

On modern artisans, autochrome photographs, Caetlynn Booth, “Sylvia” & more from the world of culture.