Nathan C. Stewart on a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw,” at the Spoleto Festival.

One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...

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

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

“Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art,” which opened at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco on March 22, is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and curated by ...

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

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

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York ...

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 ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship on February 27, 2025. I was recently invited to address the question “Can ...