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The committee did not set forth parallel recommendations that would itemize the revenues needed to pay the reparations and the other items in the report. That will come later, as it always does, after ...

The mezzo last night was Samantha Hankey, who has had an outstanding month in New York: on the 10th, she gave a recital at ...

The oratorio was nearing the three-hour mark. But I wanted to tell them, “Give it another five minutes or so!” After the aria, two more people left. There was other great music to come. But at least ...

Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800,” currently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 1 The exhibition’s thirty drawings of European ceilings feature heavenly motifs as well as ...

David Platzer on “Faces of the Wars of Religion” at the Cabinet d’arts graphiques du musée Conde, Château de Chantilly, France.

It is a conceit of the modern world that history is governed by reason. Reason is like an axe to the living, growing tree of history, with its convoluted branches, each cell and molecule emerging as a ...

The enduring legacy of the Greek philosophers was therefore the primacy of things, and Western thought followed this path without much of a contest for more than two millennia. Objects could ...

John M. Wisdom on Plato, the Western mind & art forgeries.

Forty-eight works in the exhibition were lent by the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Copenhagen. The three most generous ...

On Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story by Timothy S. Goeglein. If we forget what we did, we won’t know who we are. I’m warning of an ...

It is a happy New York tradition: the arrival of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall for a three-concert stand in February. Or March. In any case, shortly after the second half of the ...