After a decade as the company’s chief conductor, David Stern (son of Isaac) has been deservedly promoted to Palm Beach’s Ari ...

On Master Drawings New York, Hokusai, Beethoven’s quartets, a Long Island sarcophagus & more from the world of culture.

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the Palm Beach Symphony.

The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie ...

Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

Rosa Feola, the Italian soprano, does her part in advocating Martucci. (She is a favorite singer of Muti, by the way.) She sings his Tre pezzi, songs that set poems by Giosuè Carducci, who won the ...

Jeremy Black on “The Price of Victory,” by N. A. M. Rodger.

Michele H. Bogart on the Taber Sears mural in the New York City Council Chambers ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

Brooke Allen on “Academic Writing as if Readers Matter,” by Leonard Cassuto.