While admiring his luscious renditions of deli or haberdashery counters, typical museumgoers (and even some art critics) are ...

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Don Hatcher, a technical illustrator and land-and-seascape painter living in Newport, Washington, used that photograph as the ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

The merchants of Venice by Max Sligh On “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

On a performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, at the Spoleto Festival.

In recent days, the music world—classical and popular—has lost Alfred Brendel and Brian Wilson. Jay pays due tribute. He has other selections as well—beginning with a summer song, refreshing on a hot ...

Kyle Smith on "Angry Alan," by Penelope Skinner at Studio Seaview.