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 ...

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 ...

Jimmy Kimmel is back, not only unrepentant but glorying in his new role as the people’s champion of “free speech” against the “un-American” tyrant in the White House. The closest he got to an apology ...

Anatoly Grablevsky On Vermeer, the Great American Novel & a new “Odyssey.” ...

Tchaikovsky is known for symphonies, ballets, concertos, and operas—that ought to be enough. He is not especially known for chamber works. I always thought his best chamber work was the Piano Trio in ...

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More than many artists, Jean-François Millet (1814–75) has had his reputation made by others. Responses to his work from both admirers and detractors offer a range of impressions, preventing a ...

On August 24, at the Wende Museum in Culver City—a few blocks from where Victor Fleming shot Gone with the Wind—the pianist Gloria Cheng played a short recital of mid-century and new compositions as ...

Rodion Shchedrin, the composer, died on August 29 at ninety-two. My latest Music for a While is devoted to him. That podcast is here. I offer a personal appreciation, reading from some of my ...