In June 1530 Hans Holbein the Younger was rounded up for being a truant from the Reformed Church and its newfangled Eucharist. According to the town authorities of Basel, Switzerland, Holbein’s excuse ...

This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting. Critic’s Pick This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of ...

There was nothing he couldn’t do. This was Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari’s conclusion about Raphael (1483-1520), the view of his contemporaries and his patrons, and a reasonable conclusion ...

Beyond escapist nostalgia or flag-waving, how can an exhibition construct a portrait of the psyche of war? Vladislav Plisetskiy’s What Will You Do When the War Continues? (2023) might be one of the ...

The K-pop superstars’ new album, “Arirang,” comes with huge commercial expectations. The group made room for artistic experimentation, too. By Jon Caramanica After a four-year hiatus, the powerhouse K ...

Organisers have announced that Art Dubai, originally scheduled to take place in mid-April, will now take place from 14–17 May in a revised format, though it will continue to be held at its usual site, ...

Jennifer Newsom Represents Everything Wrong with Democrats’ Outreach to Young Men How the Upper-Middle Class Was Made When I was a curator and a museum director, I never went to the art fair held by ...

When I was a know-it-all art school kid long ago, I didn’t see much in Matisse. I thought his pictures were easy, decorative, and lacking the deep gravity of the art I loved and thought I was making.

Though optimism “can feel out of reach right now,” said Holland Cotter in The New York Times, the art in the latest Whitney Biennial seems to want to keep the mindset alive. Breaking from the recent ...

Stephen Sondheim’s death in 2021, at 91, was a gut punch to musical theater fans. Showered with honors and tributes, he had begun to seem eternal, a cultural constant. Even his gnarliest shows enjoyed ...

A cast of roots music stars closed out a Grand Ole Opry celebration of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' on Feb. 28. On the last night of February, the Grand Ole Opry beat with that old country heart.