Nathan C. Stewart on a recent performance by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.

On Roman legends, the Savonnerie carpets, Grand Central Atelier, Dance Theatre of Harlem & more from the world of culture.

Founded in 1931, the NSO is younger than its celebrated peer orchestras, most of which entered the world in Gilded Age ...

Ms. Stemme has sung a variety of roles, but is especially known for ones that require heft and stamina. Three of her roles at ...

James Piereson Executive Director and Trustee, John M. Olin Foundation, 1985–2005; the foundation made its last grant and ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance by the early-music ensemble Kontrapunktus.

Marguerite was the result of a brief fling between Matisse, then studying painting, and his model Caroline Joblaud. Two and a ...

Suzanna Murawski on ignorance, Van Gogh & plaster.

Nonfiction: The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World, by Selena Wisnom (University of Chicago Press): From the Library of Alexandria to the pages of Fahrenheit 451 ...

Once in a while, an artist who was successful in his time but forgotten soon after is “rediscovered” in a later era. Surprising examples of this are El Greco (1541–1614) and Johannes Vermeer ...