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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Caravaggio, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1598, Oil on canvas, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.On view in “Caravaggio 2025,” at Palazzo Barberini, Rome (through July 6).