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

Max Sligh is a freelance writer who has written on the works of Ausonius and John Milton.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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