Learned amateur architecture in our country antedates our republic. From the builders of early manor and plantation houses, who followed the latest pattern books shipped from England, to celebrated ...

Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Then a piano was wheeled out onstage for the Tchaikovsky Concerto (the First, of course, not the Second, which has always ...

To say it immediately, Nadine Sierra proved herself a great singer at the Metropolitan Opera last night. The company began a run of La sonnambula, Bellini’s opera of 1831. I will return to Ms. Sierra ...

President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year ruffled some feathers, but ...

In an age of killer submarines and cyber warfare, one might reasonably ask what old warriors from long-gone conflicts have to teach us about war today. Qui ...

The Capriccio italien, a fantasy for orchestra, is replete with Italian tunes. Tchaikovsky wrote it under the inspiration of ...

Edgar Vincent, the first (and, as it happens, the last) Viscount D’Abernon, once remarked that “An Englishman’s mind works best when it is almost too late.” He died in the dark days of 1941 and so did ...

Childhood Illuminated” at the Petit Palais.

Jimmy Kimmel is back, not only unrepentant but glorying in his new role as the people’s champion of “free speech” against the “un-American” tyrant in the White House. The closest he got to an apology ...