A Biography,” by Maurizio Serra, translated by Marshall Yarbrough.

Foreboding as the museum is, its third-floor space for temporary exhibitions is superb. An open room of some 15,000 square ...

For the nation’s leading classical ensembles, the summer months promise no great respite, but they do portend a change in ...

As an art historian in the field of Dutch and Flemish paintings, I was driven by instinct to dismiss this book on its ...

The more you prefer the primitive,” wrote the art historian E. H. Gombrich, “the less you can become primitive.” In the ...

The endowments came into being in 1965, under Lyndon Johnson. It was not until the Nixon years, however, that they got their ...

Emma Richards on “Jane Austen in 41 Objects,“ by Kathryn Sutherland.

Sean McGlynn on “Hammershøi and the Painters of Silence in North Europe and Italy” at the Palazzo Roverella, Rovigo.

Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.

Brown, sixty-seven, has long been known as one of Britain’s finest satirists and comic writers through his work for Private ...

Kyle Smith on “Just in Time,” “Ginger Twinsies” & “Gene & Gilda.” ...

On Boccaccio: A Biography, by Marco Santagata, translated by Emlyn Eisenach.