For the nation’s leading classical ensembles, the summer months promise no great respite, but they do portend a change in ...

Foreboding as the museum is, its third-floor space for temporary exhibitions is superb. An open room of some 15,000 square ...

Age of Elegance” at the King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.

Kyle Smith on “Just in Time,” “Ginger Twinsies” & “Gene & Gilda.” ...

These aperçus appear not in her novels, but in letters to two favorite relatives, her niece Anna Austen Lefroy and nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, when they were in their teens and interested in ...

As an art historian in the field of Dutch and Flemish paintings, I was driven by instinct to dismiss this book on its spurious contentions and to defend vigorously the authenticity of this great ...

A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days,” by Michael Kempe, translated by Marshall Yarbrough.

Emma Richards on “Jane Austen in 41 Objects,“ by Kathryn Sutherland.

Henrik Bering on the components of successful command.

The more you prefer the primitive,” wrote the art historian E. H. Gombrich, “the less you can become primitive.” In the modern world, simplicity, subjectivity, even crudity can appeal to sophisticated ...

Old Master paintings from 1982 to 2017 and now devotes most of his time to academic research, notably on the paintings and oil sketches of Rembrandt and Rubens.

Heather Mac Donald on the new ballet by Lincoln Jones & Alma Deutscher, premiered by American Contemporary Ballet.