If that sounds more or less like orthodox Abstract Expressionism to you, let it be noted how far Zutrau had to go to escape ...

Ted” Champlin had died, the thought that went through my head immediately was that they don’t make ’em like that anymore. Or ...

“Exceptionally Well-Preserved Anglo-Saxon Sword Found in UK ” George Nelson, ARTnews ...

Drawings from Chatsworth House” at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

On a recent concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk.

Will there always be an England? Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has put the answer to that question very much in doubt. The prime minister’s strategy seems to be to look around for dystopian novels and ...

“Depend upon it, sir,” said Dr. Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” I suppose that in logic his mind ought to continue to concentrate ...

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

Everyone knows about Aesop and his fables, but few have ever read straight through any serious collection of them, never mind Ben Edwin Perry’s unsurpassed Aesopica of 1952, which assembles 725, along ...