Isaac Sligh on Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea” at the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.

Fifty Years of Dreams” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.

On diplomatic reception rooms, connoisseurs, Emmet Gowin’s photography, Art Deco buildings & more from the world of culture.

On performances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. The stages in both productions shared a sense of obstacle and confinement. For ...

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

Walking to Carnegie Hall, I called a friend—a musician friend—and said, “I’m going to say something we could have said in the 1980s or ’90s: I’m going to hear Renée and Tom. How ’bout that?” I was ...

For an artist now best known for his desiccated portraits, “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes,” on view at New York’s Neue Galerie through mid-January, adds some necessary water to the flower pot. 1 ...

When, on the first day of the U.S. war with Iran—February 28, 2026—Ayatollah Ali Khamenei bit the dust, the mainstream press’s obituaries for this murderous tyrant included admiring references to his ...

On The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life, by Charles J. Shields. Williams, a long-time professor at the University of Denver, published Stoner in 1965, and ...

There is much talk of dreams in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (at the Winter Garden Theatre through August 9), and Willy Loman’s existence is defined, in the winter of his life, by his daydreams ...