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

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

Robert Steven Mack on historical recreations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater.

Don Hatcher, a technical illustrator and land-and-seascape painter living in Newport, Washington, used that photograph as the ...

On a performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, at the Spoleto Festival.

He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

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

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 ...