Drawing on examples from Duchamp, Warhol, Serrano, Hirst, and others, the two discuss how the banal, the transgressive, and ...

New Furniture 1920–1940” at the Vienna Furniture Museum.

George Loomis on “Cendrillon,” at the Opera Royal de Versailles.

One attraction of the new Aida was Saioa Hernández, a Spanish soprano rarely seen in American productions, in the title role.

Aida’s father, Amonasro, the king of Ethiopia, put Aida up to wheedling that information out of the Egyptian general, and has ...

In Life and in Legend,” by Heather Blurton ...

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

He thought symbolically! He hit the mark all the time but actually some covers were not meant to be symbolic. Some were strictly designs. They had no meaning whatsoever. But as a general rule for how ...

A new look at the legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most brutal killers. At the time, Snow was thirty-two years old. Born in Kansas City, he had gone to China soon after he graduated from the ...

Read Andrew Roberts’s complete remarks delivered during the seventh annual Circle Lecture in the November issue of The New ...

Delmore Schwartz is a haunting reminder of the travails—or roller-coaster rides—of reputation. He burst onto the literary scene in 1938, some years before his peers, with the poems, verse play, and ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...