Alongside this timeless insight, we are also treated to a healthy dose of Italian nationalism disguised in a Scottish ...

In October, it was announced that Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation for more than a decade, would be assuming the position of president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...

Not only English departments but also contemporary artists and curators have rendered themselves irrelevant, or so Dean Kissick writes in Harper’s. As Laddaga says of literature professors, Kissick ...

Most art lovers know Jusepe de Ribera’s The Club-Footed Boy (1642) in the Louvre, but much of his work can get lost among the Caravaggesque shuffle. It was not so in seventeenth-century Naples, where ...

The classic format of an orchestral concert is overture–concerto–symphony. Last night at the New York Philharmonic, we had concerto–symphony. The former piece was the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, ...

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...