In 2009, Lorin Maazel concluded his tenure at the New York Philharmonic by conducting a big Mahler symphony. (“What are the ...

Similar to the abstract expressionist painters working in New York during the same period, these artists were primarily ...

In his final years, for example, Michelangelo drew and redrew the Crucifixion, another scene with several figures, “as a form ...

Here are grand glorifications of sport alongside sharp satires of its ascendancy by artists such as Honoré Daumier and ...

I first encountered late-medieval German painting while visiting art museums across West Germany over the course of a ...

Niue artist, Hiapo, 1880–90, Handmade bark cloth, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts. On view in “The Wider World & Scrimshaw.” ...

Editors’ note: This essay is adapted from Leisure with Dignity: Essays in celebration of Charles R. Kesler, edited by Glenn Ellmers and Michael Anton, published by Encounter Books in 2024.

“Art is national. We can have great art if we are rooted in the soil,” Menachem Ussishkin stated in a 1926 response to the growing number of modern-art exhibitions in Jerusalem. His words echoed the ...