David Platzer on “The Empire of Sleep,” at the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris.

Then a piano was wheeled out onstage for the Tchaikovsky Concerto (the First, of course, not the Second, which has always ...

Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year ruffled some feathers, but ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dream Factoryis the story of the men (it was exclusively men) who commissioned, designed, built, and worked ...

It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.

On human nature, Egyptian gods, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, European prints & more from the world of culture. Triad of Osiris, Horus, and Isis, 872–837 B.C., Gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The museum label is unequivocal. What this mosaic shows is the battle of Issus in 333 B.C., when a Macedonian ...

Learned amateur architecture in our country antedates our republic. From the builders of early manor and plantation houses, who followed the latest pattern books shipped from England, to celebrated ...

One of the most damaging forms of censorship is self-imposed.

On Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.