On Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond, by Piero Boitani.

The Rautavaara work was Cantus Arcticus, written for the Arctic University of Oulu. It is also known as the “Concerto for ...

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Parsifal,” at the San Francisco Opera.

The Antoine Béal Collection” and “The Marcille Chardin Family” at the Orléans’ Fine Arts Museum.

Beyond the hyperbole, bad-faith arguments, and elitist bigotry is the question of how successful the president’s many cultural and architectural projects wi ...

The Petit Palais has a history of exhibiting Scandinavian masters whose works are barely known outside of their own countries, such as Sweden’s Bruno Liljefors, about whom I wrote for Dispatch last ...

On book collecting, Colonial Virginia, John Marin, Douglas Wright & more from the world of culture.

On Italian Art, Rodin, The Yorkville Nutcracker, Spain’s role in the Revolutionary War & more from the world of culture.

In the classic historical drama The Lion in Winter (1968), King Henry II, played by Peter O’Toole, laments to his wife Eleanor, “Aquitaine is not a province, it is a way to torture me.” While ...

The era of Atlantic slavery began a decade after the arrival of the Spanish in the Caribbean in 1492, with the introduction of enslaved Africans into the island of Hispaniola.” Already, on page 2 of ...

and frankincense and a manger. Coal smolders in the grate, stockings hang from cup-hooks on the mantel. We’ve chopped down a cedar tree and set it up in the living room. Here’s the box grandfather ...

Much about E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) can be discerned from his name. Born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, he later replaced “Wilhelm” with “Amadeus” as both a tribute to Mozart and a declaration ...