On the Bible, Gary Petersen, Edinburgh, Dutch drawings & more from the world of culture.

August 12, 2024, marked the sixtieth anniversary of Ian Fleming’s death. His creation James Bond entered the world a little ...

On Giorgio Morandi, a completed World War I memorial & writing history. Recent stories of note: “Largest Morandi exhibition ...

Taken from one of his theoretical works written around the time of his participation in the Revolution of 1848—which led him ...

Therein the author claimed that Stettheimer had in 1916 created “the first nude self-portrait decidedly painted from a ...

Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House, which I visited in mid-August for the closing days of the Aspen Music Festival, tells the varied ...

Paul du Quenoy on Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” at the Bayreuth Festival.

The Student: A Short History, by Michael S. Roth (Yale University Press): Tasked with finding the common traits of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus, perhaps one first thinks of the fact that each ...