Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

In his “Petition to be buried on the beach at Sète,” Georges Brassens, another native of that windy little port town south of Montpellier, asks the “good master” Paul Valéry to pardon his proposal for ...

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

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 ...

Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...

President Richard Nixon warned what America would become should it fail to have the determination and courage of a great world power. Speaking on April 30, 1970, he said: “If when the chips are down, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. This petition is remarkable because it involves one of the preeminent cultural institutions in the world being ...

Last night, two major-league pianists formed a duo in a recital at Carnegie Hall. They are Yuja Wang, the Chinese-born American, and Víkingur Ólafsson, the Icelander. In the past, there have been full ...

On Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival. In this production the work’s foundational crime, originally the Nibelung dwarf Alberich’s theft of the magic Rhine treasure that he can ...