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

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

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

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 ...

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

Suzanna Murawski on ignorance, Van Gogh & plaster.