The two pianists sat down for encores, and at the same piano: the encores would be four-hands, not two-pianos. Wang and ...

Last night, the New York Philharmonic offered a program with an accent on the mysterious and the French. Guest-conducting was ...

This dialectic is partly a partisan political drama, partly an economic salvage effort, partly a chapter in that long-running ...

“H ow do you know what someone wants to be called?” A little girl—or at least she would appear to be a girl—ponders this ...

In Luke Stegemann’s perceptive “new biography” of the kaleidoscopic capital of Spain, he chides Hemingway for possibly being ...

John Check on “The Catholic Beethoven,” by Nicholas Chong.

His works are antic, hers austere, yet these independent-minded sculptors are united by their fearless pursuit of personal ...

An Idea and Its History,” by J. C. D. Clark.

Soon came an explosion of monographs, biographies, and dissertations on Furness and his contemporaries. This rehabilitation ...

Kyle Smith on “Gypsy,” “Death Becomes Her” & “Hell’s Kitchen.” ...

V is itors to The Frick Collection often ask how Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) became a collector. How did such a ...

Muse to Power,” by Hugo Vickers.